Bikini Atoil consists
c= scme
15
complexes made up of a number cfc...
(Fig.
1).
islands
and 2
Ll interconnected inlonts
The islarcés are located on a covel sim surroundine
a lagoon 22 miles long ara 13 riles wice.,
Votrel
of the atcil
*
is 2.32 square miles.
The largest island, Bikini,
it-aA arca
Over half the area is
fot
tami,
”
pn
Eneu,
=n
and Nan.
is 2., miles long and 2. mile wide.
wae cechnicues utilized on chais
(HRS3)
island
survey w
iargely
for the past several years in concuctine Escailed
anvestigétions of
tha errepertccs of one eternal reclation
environmene in the Unizecd Etates
(1).
The srime instxrumenta-
tion usec for tne survey measuxremants included a hic
essu
i
Jw
ct
in sits: Y-xay spectrometry, end a number of hand-held survey
nstruments
{G-M counters ané scintillacicn detectors).
A total of i6 working GCéys were soent on the atoll, but
umber of islands to be surveyed and the
rs
because of the
=o
(aifficult access,
dense vegetation, nigh temperatures,
_A
b.
Gifticuit log stical problews and environmental conditions