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1946 is the correct’ one, not 1947.
But we may take a quick look at Eniwetok :on the next slide,
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The atolls were selected, according to the Task
@ safe anchorage for the fleet and probably equally important
Of course, they were isolated; they were
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As far as we who were interested in the environ“mental sciences, they were quite ideal because they did
provide a native flora and fauna that gave us a good crosssection of what we might expect.
Now, you see these tiny
little islets each with a peculiar environment quite its own,
as the entire atoll tyne of environment is peculizr,
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The land emerging area, about three square miles
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in each of the atolls, divided up into som 20 little islands
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in each atoll,
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limited,
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tropical environment that is subjected to wide temperature
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and salinity variations.
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one group of mammis divided into three species cof rats that
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The land plants, the fauna, is relatively
It's limited to those forms that can survive ina
The land and animals are limited to
were introduced apparently at the time that the native
people cam@ there,
The birds are limited only to those
aquatic birds tnat can fly long distances,
Insects, there's
oné amphibian and one introduced, a reptile.
On the eontrary the marine fauna and flora is extrerely diverse,
to Puget
There are about 700 srecies of fish in contrast
Sound where I work in my normal activity.
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