Atoll information--Namu Atoll (Marshall Islands)

Marshall Islands Atoll Information

Namu Atoll

Atoll Information

Atoll (name)		Location		Number of Islets	Land area (km²)		Lagoon area (km²)		Ratio land to lagoon area (km²)
English	Marshallese	North	East	Number of Islets	area	rank	area	rank	ratio	rank
Namu	Namo			51	6.27	11	397.64	11	1.58	18

Map of Namu 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:

Bond (Bond 1792)

Magaretha I. (Moore 1804)

Margaretta

Musquillo (1792)

Mussekett (mispelling)

Nemu

Ross (Dennet 1797)

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

Paraffin -- Namu Atoll

Environmental Data

View a 1881 map of Namu Atoll

Map of Namu Atoll (1897)

Historic Data

List of the Foreign property holdings during the German Colonial Period

Ship List

European vessels visiting Namu Atoll until the beginning of the German Protectorate over the Marshall Islands in October 1885.

Abbreviations/Comments: Vessel type note that the type labour ship includes blackbirders; Nationality (Flag): AUS - Austria; CHI - Chinese; FRA - French; GB - Great Britain; GBA - Great Britain, Australia; GBN - Great Britain, New Zealand; GER - Imperial Germany; HAW - Hawaiian; HOL - Holland; JAP - Japanese; MIS - Marshall Islands (locally owned); RUS - Imperial Russia; SIN - Singapore; SPA Spanish; SWE - Sweden; TAH - Tahiti; USA - United Sates of America.

Atoll	Year	Date	Vessel	Captain	Type	Nationality
Namu	1792	December 16	Royal Admiral	Henry Bond	merchant ship	GB
Namu	1797	September 20	Britannia	Thomas Dennet	merchant ship	GB
Namu	1809		Elisabeth	Patterson	merchant ship	GB
Namu	1857	August 29	Morning Star	S.G.Moore	mission ship	USA
Namu	1860	April 11	Corinthian	Velentine Lewis	whaler	USA
Namu (?)	1804	November 25	Ocean	John Mertho	merchant ship	GB
Namu	1884	September	Ada		merchant vessel	GB

Bibliographic citation for this document

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