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wer tee ro.
Among the islands listed, Alice is the most westerly of the
northern islands and Leroy is the most westerly of the southern
islands.
Thus Alice, along with Belle and Clara, are generally
downwind from the northerly island Janet, the location of many tests,
The early-time fallout on these westerly islands from tests at Janet
can be seen in the table above.
On the other hand, Yvonne is on the
eastern side of the Atoll, about midvay in the north-south direction.
The other side of the Atoll,
in the prevailing downwind direction, is
largely a reef, with Alice to the north and Leroy to the south.
The
table shows that the early fallout of significance was on one,or the
other of these islands.
Sea- Based Surveys
Much ot the information on radiological conditions in the oceanic
obtained from repeated surveys by the Applied Fisheries Laboratory of the
University of Washington (Hines, 1962).
In June 1946 before the first tests at Bikini Atoll, almost two
thousand fish were taken at Bikini as controls to ascertain the normal
Bikini fish population.
Between Able and Baker tests and after these
tests similar numbers of fish in this vicinity were collected to study
radioactivities (Hines, 1962, p. 44).
In September 1946 migratory fish
caught at nearly atolls were found not to have detectable radioactivity
d
(lines, 1962, p. 49).
Resurveys were conducted in 1947 and 1948 with scientific representat
., tion broadened to other military, governmental, and institutional
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ne eee es te mpm on one ae
areas around the Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls and in the lagoons has been