Historic Demographic Information for the Marshall Islands

Sources used or consulted

compiled by Dirk H.R. Spennemann



Abo, T., B.W.Bender, A.Capelle & T.DeBrum
1976Marshallese-English Dictionary. PALI language Texts: Micronesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Anonymous
1885Kolonialpolitische Vorgänge: Deutsche Besitzergreifung der Marshall-Inseln. Deutsche Kolonialzeitung 2, 759-760.
1886Die Verhältnisse auf den Marshallinseln. Deutsche Kolonialzeitung 3, 789-794.
1892Jahresbericht betreffend das Schutzgebiet der Marshall Inseln. Deutsches Kolonialblatt 3, 332-226.
1893Jahresbericht betreffend das Schutzgebiet der Marshall Inseln (1892-1893). Deutsches Kolonialblatt 4, 383-386.
1895aKolonialpolitische Vorgänge: Deutsche Besitzergreifung der Marschall-Inseln. Deutsche Kolonialzeitung 2, 759-760.
1895bDenkschriften betreffend (Jahresberichte über) das Schutzgebiet der Marschall-Inseln (1893-1894). Stenographische Berichte über die Verhandlungen des Reichstages 1895.
1896Denkschriften betreffend (Jahresberichte über) das Schutzgebiet der Marschall-Inseln (1894-1895). Stenographische Berichte über die Verhandlungen des Reichstages 1896.
1897Denkschriften betreffend (Jahresberichte über) das Schutzgebiet der Marschall-Inseln (1895-1896). Stenographische Berichte über die Verhandlungen des Reichstages 1897.
1898Denkschriften betreffend (Jahresberichte über) das Schutzgebiet der Marschall-Inseln (1896-1897). Stenographische Berichte über die Verhandlungen des Reichstages 1898.
1899Denkschriften betreffend (Jahresberichte über) das Schutzgebiet der Marschall-Inseln (1897-1898). Stenographische Berichte über die Verhandlungen des Reichstages 1899.
1900Denkschriften betreffend (Jahresberichte über) das Schutzgebiet der Marschall-Inseln (1898-1899). Stenographische Berichte über die Verhandlungen des Reichstages 1900.
1967 Census data 1967 Marshall Islands District. Ms. on file, Majuro: Office of Planning and Statistics.
1969Marshall Islands Survey Trip Report. December 1989. Boulder, Colorado: Facilities Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Australia
1902Commonwealth of Australia. Notes on German Colonies - New Guinea, Samoa, Marshall Islandsfor the year 1902. Australian Archives, Record A 6661/1 850. Australian Archives, A.C.T. Regional Repository, Canberra, Australia.

Biermann, Max
1891Von den Marshallinseln. Deutsches Kolonialblatt 2, 321-332.

Born, Ludwig
1911Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Eingeborenenmedizin der Marschallaner. Deutsches Kolonialblatt 12,168-169.

Brandeis, Antonie
1908Südsee-Erinnerungen. Deutsche Kolonialzeitung XXV

Brandeis, Eugen
1892Jahresbericht betreffend das Schutzgebiet der Marshall Inseln. Deutsches Kolonialblatt 3, 332-336.

Brown, J.W.
1859Second cruise of the Morning Star. Nautical Magazine. 28, 281-287.

Bryan, Edwin H.
1972Life in the Marshall Islands. Honolulu, Hawaii: Pacific Scientific Information Center.

Chamisso, A. von
1836Reise um die Welt. Leipzig.
1986A yoyage around the world with the Romanzov exloring expedition in the years 1815-1818 in the Brig Rurick, Captain Otto von Kotzebue. (translated by H.Kratz). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Chapman, B.
19831980 census of population, Volume 1: Characteristics of the Population. Chapter B: general Population Characteristics. Part 57B Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands excluding the Northern Mariana Islands. Washington, D.C.,: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.

Chave, M.E.
1949 Anthropological study of mixed bloods in Majuro. Pacific Science Board, Washington D.C. (Co-ordinated investigation of Micronesian Anthropology 1947-1949).

Eisenhart, Otto
1888 Acht Monate unter den Eingeborenen auf Ailu (Marshall-Gruppe). Aus allen Welttheilen 19, 207-208, 223-226, 250-252.

Erdland, A.
1906 Wörterbuch und Grammatik der Marshallsprache nebst ethnographischen Erlaueterungen und kurzen Sprachübungen. Archiv Deutscher Kolonialsprachen. Vol.IV. Berlin: Georg Reimer.
1909Die Stellung der Frauen in den Häuptlingsfamilien der Marschallinseln. Anthropos IV,
1914Die Marshall Insulaner. Leben und Sitte, Sinn und Religion eines Südsee-volkes. Anthropos Bibliothek. Internationale Sammlung Ethnologischer Monographien, Vol.2(1). Münster: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

Finsch, Otto
1886Die Marshall Inseln. Die Gartenlaube 34, 37-38
1893Ethnographische Erfahrungen und Belegstücke aus der Südsee. Annalen des K.K.Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 7. Vienna: K.K.Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum.

Fosberg, F.Raymond
1955Northern Marshall Islands Expedition 1951-1952. Narrative. Atoll Research Bulletin 37. Washington: Pacific Science Board.

Friedrichsen, I.
1879Karte der Marshall Inseln.Auf der Basis der englischen Admiralitaetskarte No 983 nach den J.Kubary auf Ebon eingezogenen Erkundigungen und nach Angaben des Capitaen Mellen. Hamburg: Friedrichsen & Co..

Grundemann, D.
1887Unser kleinstes Schutzgebiet, die Marschallinseln. Deutsche Kolonialzeitung 4, 441-444.

Grundemann, R.
1889Die evangelische Mission in den deutschen Schutzgebieten der Südsee. Deutsche Kolonialzeitung 6, 100-112.

Gulick, L.H.
1862The Marshall-Islands. Nautical Magazine P.298

Hager, C.
1886Die Marshall Inseln in Erd- und Voelkerkunde, Handel und Mission. Leipzig: G.Lingke.

Hawaii Architects & Engineers Inc.
1968Planning Proposals Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands District. Trust Territory Planning Program, Final Report. Honolulu: Hawaii Architects & Engineers, Inc..

Hernsheim, F.
1883Südsee-Erinnerungen Berlin.
1887Die Marshall-Inseln. Mittheilungen der geographischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg 1885-1886 (1887), 297-308.

Hezel, Francis X.
1983The First Taint of Civilisation. A History of the Caroline and Marshall Islands in Pre-Colonial Days, 1521-1885. Pacific Islands Monographs Series, No.1. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Japanese Government
1922Report on the administration of the territory under Japanese Mandate [for 1921]. C 189.1922VI. Commnique aux membres du Conceil 1/18085/18085. 6 April 1922. Contained in Commonwealth of Australia, External Affairs Department, Australian Archives, Record No. A981/1. Marshall and Caroline Islands 2 Part 1. Australian Archives, A.C.T. Regional Repository, Canberra, Australia.
1923Annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of the South Sea islands under Japanese Mandate for the year 1923. [Tokyo]: Japanese Government.
1924Annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of the South Sea islands under Japanese Mandate for the year 1924. [Tokyo]: Japanese Government.
1927Annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of the South Sea islands under Japanese Mandate for the year 1927. [Tokyo]: Japanese Government.
1928Annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of the South Sea islands under Japanese Mandate for the year 1928. [Tokyo]: Japanese Government.
1929Annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of the South Sea islands under Japanese Mandate for the year 1929. [Tokyo]: Japanese Government.
1931Annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of the South Sea islands under Japanese Mandate for the year 1931. [Tokyo]: Japanese Government.
1932Annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of the South Sea islands under Japanese Mandate for the year 1932. [Tokyo]: Japanese Government.
1934Annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of the South Sea islands under Japanese Mandate for the year 1934. [Tokyo]: Japanese Government.
1935Annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of the South Sea islands under Japanese Mandate for the year 1935. [Tokyo]: Japanese Government.
1936Annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of the South Sea islands under Japanese Mandate for the year 1936. [Tokyo]: Japanese Government.
1937Annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of the South Sea islands under Japanese Mandate for the year 1937. [Tokyo]: Japanese Government.
1938Annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of the South Sea islands under Japanese Mandate for the year 1938. [Tokyo]: Japanese Government.

Jeschke, Carl
1905Bericht über den Orkan in den Marschall-Inseln am 30. Juni 1905. Petermanns Mitteilungen 51, 248-249
1906Bericht über die Marschall-Inseln. Petermanns Mitteilungen 52, 270-277.

Johnston, E.E.
19731973 Population of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Saipan: Office of Planning and Statitistics, Office of the High Commissioner, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

Kotzebue, O.von
1821Entdeckungsreise in the Südsee und nach der Bering Strasse. Weimar.

Krämer, A. & H.Nevermann
1938Ralik-Ratak (Marschall Inseln). In: G.Thilenius (ed.), Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910. II. Ethnographie, B: Mikronesien. Vol. 11: Hamburg: Friedrichsen & de Gruyter.

Lay, W. & C.M.Hussey
1963A narrative of the mutiny on board of the whalesship Globe. New York: Corinth Books. (Reprint of the 1825 original).

Linckens, H.
1912Auf den Marshall Inseln (Deutsche Südsee). Land und Leute. Katholische Missionsthätigkeit. Hiltrup: Herz-Jesu Missionare.

Mason, Leonard
1947The economic organisation of the Marshall Islands. U.S.Commercial Company Econnomic Survey.Typrewritten 1947.

McCoy, J.J.
1981Majuro Development Plan. Saipan, Marianas: High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

Merz, Georg
1910aJahresbericht ueber die Entwicklung der Marschall Inseln im Jahre 1909/1910. Dated 8 June 1910. Jaluit Journal No. 896/10. Record on file. German Colonial Records from Rabaul, New Britain. Australian Archives, Record Series G2, File N6, Jahresberichte des Inselgebietes. Australian Archives, A.C.T. Regional Repository, Canberra, Australia.
1910bRundreise mit "Delphin". Kaiserliches Bezirksamt Journal No. 1324/10. Report to the Imperial Governor at Rabaul., dated Jaluit, September 6th, 1910. Ms. on file. Reichskolonialamt Volume 3077., Document 23 Australian Archives.
1911Jahresbericht ueber die Entwicklung der Marschall Inseln im Jahre 1910/1911. Dated 18 June 1911. Record on file. German Colonial Records from Rabaul, New Britain. Australian Archives, Record Series G2, File N6, Jahresberichte des Inselgebietes. Australian Archives, A.C.T. Regional Repository, Canberra, Australia.
1912aKaiserliches Bezirksamt Journal No. 5038/12. Report to the Imperial Governor at Rabaul, dated Jaluit, May 16th, 1912. Ms. contained in Reichskolonialamt Volume 3077, document 5. Ms on file, Australian Archives Canberra, G-2, Y40
1912bKaiserliches Bezirksamt Journal No. 9218/42. Report to the Imperial Governor at Rabaul, dated Jaluit, August 29th, 912. Ms. contained in Reichskolonialamt Volume 3077, document 5. Ms on file, Australian Archives Canberra, G-2, Y40
1912cGerman Colonial document "Eingeborenenbevoelkerung der Marschall Inseln, undated. (1912) Ms. contained in Reichskolonialamt Volume 3077, document 5. Ms on file, Australian Archives Canberra, G-2, Y40.

MISA
1988Marshall Islands Statistical Abstract 1988. Majuro: Office of Planning and Statistics

Nucker, D.H.
1959Census Report 1958 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Agana, Guam: High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

OPNAV-Supp.
1944Office of the Chief of Naval Adminsitration, Civil Affairs Handbook, Marshall Islands Statistical Supplement. OPNAV 50E-1S. 20 May 1944. Washington: Navy Department, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

OPS (Office of Planning and Statistics)
1980Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Volume III, No.1. Saipan: Office of Planning and Statistics, Office of the High Commissioner.s.
1980Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Volume III, Number 2. Saipan: Office of Planning and Statitistics, Office of the High Commissioner, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
1989Census of population and housing 1988 Final report. Majuro: Office of Planning and Statistics, Republic of the Marshall Islands.

RKA 3077 Doc.5
nd.German Colonial document "Eingeborenenzaehlung der Marschall Inseln. Ms. contained in Reichskolonialamt Volume 3077, document 5. Ms on file, Australian Archives Canberra, G-2, Y40.

Sherrod, R
1952History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II. Washington: Combat Forces Press

Spennemann, Dirk H.R.
1989aReport on the skeletal remains from the manshelter of Barracks Building A, Torwa Island, Maloelap Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Osteological Report DRS 51 (1989). Ms. on file, Alele Museum, P.O.Box 629, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
1989bReport on a human femur from the south-western coast of Torwa Island, Maloelap Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Osteological Report DRS 52 (1989). Ms. on file, Alele Museum, P.O.Box 629, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
1990aOsteological analysis of human remains from site MI-Mj-20, found at Laura Beach, Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Osteological Report DRS 53 (1990). Ms. on file, Alele Museum, P.O.Box 629, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
1990b Predictive model of the expansion of the inhabited area on Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Report prepared for the Historic Preservation Office, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Report OTIA-TAG-MAR-42-10/90.
1990cPredictive model of the expansion of cemeteries on Majuro Atoll until the year 2010. Report prepared for the Historic Preservation Office, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands.1990.

Steinbach, Erwin
1893Bericht über die Gesundheitsverhältnisse der Schutzgebiete der Marshall-Inseln. Mittheilungen von Forschungsreisenden und Gelehrten aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten 6, 306-313.
1895aBericht über die Gesundheitsverhältnisse der Eingeborenen der Marshall-Inseln. Mittheilungen von Forschungsreisenden und Gelehrten aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten 8, 157-171.
1895bBericht über die Gesundheitsverhältnisse der Marshall-Inseln. Mittheilungen von Forschungsreisenden und Gelehrten aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten 8, 171-175.

Stevenson, Fanny ("Mrs.R.L.Stevenson")
1914 The Cruise of the Janet Nichol among the South Sea Islands. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Südsee-Handbuch
1913 Südsee-Handbuch des Reichsmarineamtes

Tobin, Jack
1952Land tenure in the Marshall Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 11.

Warren, J.
1860The Morning Star: History of the Children's Missionary vessel and of the Marquesan and Micronesian Missions.Boston: American Tract Society.

Williamson, I. & M.D.Sabath
1982Island population, land area, and climate: A case study of the Marshall islands. Human Ecology 10(1), 71-84

Witt, Jakob
1881Die Marschall-Gruppe, Annalen der Hydrographie IX.

Yanaihara, T
1940Pacific Islands under Japanese Mandate. Oxford: Oxford University Press

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