EE eeoakesiel Se EE i niall a 0 bile * end of ELMER eS It ig steep on the seaward side and gently sloping on the shore side. w are rare or entirely absent except in small pools. dge of Eniwetok which ig about 1300 feet wide, NO principal and the last 500 feet of the groin is a gravel and sand bar. contains legs t al small dune- YVONNE, in the a medium-sized islet, A more complete is located along the northeast face of Eniwetok Atoll about 6 miles north-northwest of BRUCE. entral part It is an elongated single Its dry land area islet measuring about 1.7 miles long and about 0,2 miles wide. ad for five or (Figure 10). comprises about 0.3 square miles 3 yet has not been used as a shot site. For many years this islet has As a result considerable modification of its natural topography has been produced. ‘sed by the It is today a low-lying sand-covered flat with numerous deep and large depressions extending down into the reef structure below the reer and with numerous dune-like hummocks which reach heights of 15 to 20 feet above al Ridge The seaward and lagoon reef and beach characteristics are similar to gea level. Ls approxi- eh Ses SW eae TESSNS SeteRe ce oe ts paEEciel me eae those described in the case of BRUCE. vtEOS See ater, BRUCE is ccvered almost completely with native vegetation. description of the vegetation is given in Section 6, Ibservations nd marine The beaches which slope gently out to a wide partially submerged rock flat. ch glopes orange-~ The lagoonward side of BRUCE is composed of a number of scalloped gravel and sand and is about ir more of The maximum current through this channel reaches 2 knots. flood tide. ‘sentially flat lists of a A narrow water here ig one to one and one half feet deep at low tide and during early ography of the ¥ rounded (5) channel separates the groin from the islet beach and is gravel covered. al measuring Travel and To Further shoreward the rubble grows finer boulders of coral and algal limestone. at the Southern € floor ig modified by erosion landward the base of the bar is lithified and on it is piled a mass of loose arated from the lore beyond The Rock Bar or Groin, is a lithified conglomorate, and golution to form a rough platform about 3 inches above low water level. *ntire northern ‘Y spaced (4) Corals nations, As a result of numerous nuclear deto- the islet is entirely devoid of vegetation. JANET is a principal islet of the atoll and is situated at its northernmost extremity. It lies some 11 miles northwest of YVONNE and is roughly triangular in shape. JANET measures some 1.1 miles in a northwest-southeast direction and some 0.7 miles in a northeast-southwest direction. miles of dry land (Figure 10). It contains about 0.6 gquare This islet has also been used during previous years as a shot site and as a result is largely devoid of vegetation and has an appreciably altered topography. The islet consists of an essentially pyramidal table at some 15 feet above sea level with numerous large pits and dépressions located along its seaward Sides , 13 = — TS peeiene ne gp es a ae r LE a a ee aa ay eee, “= —_ 7 = — - balla alk is