8 2. Rongelap 120N, 1670E islets, The of THE RONGELAP EXPERIENCE BACKGROUND-- Atoll (Fig. total largest 0.3 is 2 #l). 3.07 area orI a submerged debris, primarily atoll of is can as grown more which lists Previously, it the fluctuations was Bravo southwest than bound of 50 low-lying a lagoon island, and German in 100 1906, size, factor the of Hawaii, at islands and 400 Rongelap, long in the 1973, sq. has need 189 to of in in work control 1860. the a coral are and reef miles. an area reef made of atoll reef organisms. islands are covered the kinds of plants of 1986, issued with that season. Abstract the of islands and dry 84 persons periods 120 of that limiting Statistical incident, Japanese in is is The appearance, a major 165 atoll mass. population reflect the and gravel Islands the of in staples The Marshall 1920, miles important volcanic typical However, of most sand vegetation. time miles, structure resting Republic, comprises sq. the 2,500 miles. The geological be about It and by far sq. The located atoll 1967, were as totalling 264 in elsewhere?) are: 99 in 235. 1958. evacuated. In 1954 at the (These Earlier 1945, by the records 98 in 193S, for 11O