have no Gesire to exert their energies in improving the agricultural productivity of Kili, even with frequent clarific- ation of the permanency of their residence on Kili Island have an adamantine belief, Present Conditions of Bikini Atoll Bikini Atoll, consisting of 36 islands with a land area of 2.32 square miles, is situated in the northern Marshailse 11 degrees 29 minutes to 11 degrees 43 minutes North Latitude, 165 degrees 11 minutes to 165 degrees 34 minutes East Longitude. The lagoon extends over an area of 229 square miles. The soils of the islands are of the lithosol and regosol group, and in terms of profile they oonsist of 3 horizons----A, (zone of incorporated organic matter), A (transitional) the horizon passing directly into the relatively unaltered parent material, the C horizon. The annual rainfall is much lower than the southern atolls, but considered adequate for cultivation of Plants siutable to atolls, and perhaps ranges from 60 to 90 Department of Energy inches per year. . Historian’s Office ARCHIVES | AB a result of damage incurred by the series of nuclear test explosions, the vegetation is atypical of other atolls---- all of the islands have little or no coconuts and pandanus and are covered with thick stands of Scaevola, Messerschmidia, Cordia, Pisonia, etc, the islands. Other subsistence crops are absent from Although two islands, Bokbata and Bokanejen on the