Bikini Bikini Atoll (/ˈbɪkɪˌniː/ or /bɪˈkiːni/; Marshallese: Pikinni, [pʲiɡinnʲi], lit. 'coconut place'), known as Eschscholtz Atoll between the 19th century...
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Map all coordinates in "Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll" using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates)...
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after the Bikini Atoll, where the first public test of a nuclear bomb had taken place four days before. Due to its revealing design, the bikini was once...
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The flag of Bikini Atoll, a member of the Marshall Islands, closely resembles the flag of the United States and was adopted in 1987. The flag is symbolic...
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Atoll Bikar (Bikaar) Atoll Bikini Atoll Bokak Atoll Erikub Atoll Jemo Island Nadikdik Atoll Rongerik Atoll Toke Atoll Ujelang Atoll The average altitude...
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Operation Crossroads (redirect from Bikini baker)
was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on...
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known as Aomoen, is an island twelve kilometers northwest of Bikini Island, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. The portion of the island covered by vegetation...
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the Marshall Islands, approximately 200 kilometers (120 mi) east of Bikini Atoll. Its total land area is only 1.68 square kilometers (0.65 sq mi), but...
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circumference. It is the second-westernmost atoll of the Ralik Chain and is 305 kilometers (190 mi) west from Bikini Atoll. It was held by the Japanese from 1914...
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Bikini Atoll Airport, also known as Enyu Airfield, is a public use airstrip at Enyu on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. This airstrip is assigned the location...
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agriculture. Of the 29 atolls, 24 of them are inhabited. Bikini Atoll is an atoll in the Marshall Islands. There are 23 islands in the Bikini Atoll. The islands...
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SpongeBob SquarePants (redirect from Bikini Bottom)
benthic underwater city of Bikini Bottom located in the Pacific Ocean beneath the real-life coral reef known as Bikini Atoll. Its citizens are mostly multicolored...
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District, and Bikini with the Bikini & Kili District. Ailinginae Atoll and Rongerik Atoll traditionally belong to Rongelap Atoll Erikub Atoll belongs to...
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Bikini Atoll were a post-rock band formed in London, though Ché Albrighton is from Jugenheim, Germany, and Bastian Juel is from Denmark. The band was signed...
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Kili Island (category Atolls of the Marshall Islands)
who originally lived on Bikini Atoll. They were relocated when they agreed to let the U.S. government temporarily use Bikini for nuclear testing in 1945...
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including hydrogen bomb tests, primarily at Bikini Atoll, about 120 kilometers (75 mi) from Rongelap Atoll. On March 1, 1954, the testing of the Castle...
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coast of Bikini Atoll from above Raa Atoll in Maldives Kaafu Atoll in Maldives In 1842, Charles Darwin explained the creation of coral atolls in the southern...
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around 20 kilotons). The Operation Crossroads series in July 1946, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, was the first postwar test series and one of...
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Pacific Proving Grounds (category Bikini Atoll)
1946 and 1962. The U.S. tested a nuclear weapon (codenamed Able) on Bikini Atoll on June 30, 1946. This was followed by Baker on July 24, 1946 (dates...
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American Experience. The film documents the nuclear tests performed around Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads in 1946, and their effects on the indigenous...
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Operation Castle (category Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll)
high-yield (high-energy) nuclear tests by Joint Task Force 7 (JTF-7) at Bikini Atoll beginning in March 1954. It followed Operation Upshot–Knothole and preceded...
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Operation Hardtack I (category Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll)
in the megaton range. The test was scheduled to take place from the Bikini Atoll. Due to the fact that the payloads of Teak and Orange were much larger...
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bikini, modeled by Micheline Bernardini. Reard named his design after the Bikini Atoll, where the first post-war tests of the atomic bomb were taking place...
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Castle Bravo (category Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll)
thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle. Detonated on March 1...
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subculture itself. The name for the subculture derives from Bikini Atoll, rather than the bikini swimsuit. A common element of their clothing were neckties...
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including Rongerik Atoll, Ujelang Atoll, Kwajalein Atoll, and Kili Island. A decade later the U.S. suggested that some of the Bikini Islanders move to...
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of atolls and isolated islands in the chain: Ailinginae Atoll Ailinglaplap Atoll Bikini Atoll Ebon Atoll Enewetak Atoll Jabat Island Jaluit Atoll Kili...
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locate and destroy an American submarine that had sunk in a lagoon off Bikini Atoll before the Japanese are able to raise it and capture the advanced radar...
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more were detonated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, and some 120 were produced between 1947 and 1949, when it was...
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personality disorder. Bikini Bottom is a fictional city in SpongeBob SquarePants that is set below Bikini Atoll. A theory regarding Bikini Bottom explains that...
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