North Pacific Ocean – Marshall Islands – Bikini (Eschholtz) Atoll

This coastal survey was printed in Washington D.C. by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office in 1944. Bikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll) is an atoll in one of the Micronesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of Republic of the Marshall Islands. It consists of 36 islands surrounding a 229.4 sqmi lagoon. As part of the Pacific Proving Grounds it was the site of more than 20 nuclear weapons tests between 1946 and 1958, including the first test of a practical dry fuel hydrogen bomb in 1952.

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