Marshall Islands Atoll Information

Bikar

Atoll Information

Atoll (name) Location Number
of
Islets		 Land area (km2) Lagoon area (km2) Ratio land to lagoon area (km2)
English Marshallese North East area rank area rank ratio rank
Bikar Pikaar 12°15' 170°06' 6 0.49 30 37.40 26 1.32 19 
 

Alternative names

The following alternative names have been used on European charts
logbooks and the accounts of visitors:
Bigar
Dawson (Gilbert 1788)
Farnham (US whaler 1832)

US. Navy Codenames used during WWII and during the nuclear testing period


Varsity I -- Bikati Island 
 

Environmental Data

View a 1881 map of Bikar Atoll

Map of Bikar Atoll (1897) 
 

Historic Data


List of the Foreign property holdings during the German Colonial Period

Historic Demographic Information for the Marshall Islands--Bikar Atoll

Chronological listing of ships visiting the Marshall Islands until 1885 --Bikar Atoll

 

Photos


[Geography]

Bibliographic citation for this document

 Spennemann, Dirk HR (1998-05). Atoll Information.
URL: http:/marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/html/atolls/bikar.html

CONTACT:
Dirk H.R. Spennemann, Institute of Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, P.O.Box 789, Albury NSW 2640, Australia.
e-mail: dspennemann@csu.edu.au

© Dirk H.R. Spennemann 1999
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