Marshall Islands Atoll Information

Namorik Atoll

Atoll Information

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Atoll (name) Location Number
of
Islets		 Land area (km2) Lagoon area (km2) Ratio land to lagoon area (km2)
English Marshallese East area rank area rank ratio rank
Namdrik Namdik     2 2.77 20 8.42 28 32.92 1

Map of Namorik Atoll (Source: Office of Planning and Statistics 1989

 

Alternative names

The following alternative names have been used on European charts
logbooks and the accounts of visitors:
Baring Islands (Bond 1792)
Klein-Namo
Namurik 
 

Public Health

 Epidemics recorded for Namorik(1887-1943)

YearDiseaseCasualtiesSource
1895InfluenzaAnonymous 1897
1943Influenza50%Cockrum 1970:216
 

Environmental Data

View a 1881 map of Namorik Atoll

Map of Namorik Atoll (1897) 
 

Historic Data

 List of the Foreign property holdings during the German Colonial Period

Historic Demographic Information for the Marshall Islands--Namorik Atoll

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

Historic Copra Production by Atoll --Namorik Atoll

Brig Vision at Namorik Atoll 1876 
 

Images
Namorik Harbour in the 1870s (colour lithograph).


[Geography]

Bibliographic citation for this document

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

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