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Pacific Ocean atoll in the Marshall Islands
Knox Atoll
NASA picture of Knox Atoll
Knox Atoll is located in Marshall IslandsKnox AtollKnox Atoll
Geography
LocationNorth Pacific
Coordinates05°54′00″N 172°09′00″E / 5.90000°N 172.15000°E / 5.90000; 172.15000
ArchipelagoRatak
Total islands18
Area0.98 km (0.38 sq mi)
Highest elevation3 m (10 ft)
Administration
 Marshall Islands
Demographics
Population0

Knox Atoll (Marshallese: Ņadikdik, ) is an uninhabited coral atoll of 18 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and is the southernmost atoll of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. The total land area is only 0.98 square kilometers (0.38 sq mi), but it encloses a largely sand-filled lagoon with an area of 3.42 square kilometers (1.32 sq mi). The atoll measures 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) in length and is 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) wide. The largest islets, located on the western and northern sides, include Aelingeo, Nadikdik and Nariktal. The atoll is separated by the Klee Passage from the southern point of Mili Atoll to which it was once connected.

History

Knox Atoll was claimed by the German Empire along with the rest of the Marshall Islands in 1885. After World War I, the island came under the South Seas Mandate of the Empire of Japan. Following the end of World War II, it came under the control of the United States as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands until the independence of the Marshall Islands in 1986.

Typhoon

On 30 June 1905 the atoll of Nadikdik was completely washed over by a huge typhoon that stripped the atoll down to the bare coral. Almost all of the some 60 inhabitants perished, save by two boys who survived a 24-hour drift voyage clinging on a breadfruit tree. In the century since then, the islands have largely regenerated.

See also

Notes

  1. Marshallese-English Dictionary - Place Name Index
  2. Churchill, William (1920). "Germany's Lost Pacific Empire". Geographical Review. 10 (2): 84. JSTOR 207706.

References

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Ratak Chain (Sunrise, Eastern)
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  • Bikar
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  • Jemo
  • Likiep
  • Wotje
  • Erikub
  • Maloelap
  • Aur
  • Majuro
  • Arno
  • Mili
  • Knox (Nadikdik)
  • (Limalok)
  • Ralik Chain (Sunset, Western)
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