cst teas SD EAiio Port tg Sergeitey 4ote ko re ethtet program from 1946 to 1958, The of coconut trees on Eneu and Bikini. Bikini people, since their initial Additional subsistence crops of bread- relocation to Rongerik Atoll in 1946, fruit, Pandanus fruit, papaya, and have had a continuing desire to return banana were planted on Bikini Island. to their homeland; so in the latter To facilitate resettlement, 43 part of the 1960's, the first steps houses were constructed on Bikini toward rehabitation of Bikini Atoll Island between 1969 and 1974. were taken. second phase of housing was planned In 1969 a general cleanup A of debris and buildings began at for the interior of Bikini Island; Bikini Atoll. however, preliminary data indicated Concurrently, scrub vegetation was cleared from Bikini and that the external gamma dose in the interior of Bikini Island might be _ Eneu Islands, the two major residential islands of the Bikini people higher than in other parts of the prior to their relocation (see island. Fig. 1).: for the location of second phase An agricultural reclamation program was initiated with the planting Nam Therefore, to select a site housing at Bikini Island that would SQ Aomen-lroij Chain Bokbata_ <j Bokantuak lomslan BIKIN! ATOLL Bokdrolul Bokaetoktok © Oroken Rokere |® Eonjebi AdrikasSO hele Lukoj Aerokoj-Eneman Chain We ess Enidrik 0 20 Scale — km Fig. as 5009952 1. Map of Bikini Atoll. ~2- Eneu