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Coral atoll in the Marshall Islands
1896 map of Jaluit Atoll
Jaluit Atoll (Marshallese : Jālwōj [tʲælʲ(o )wɤtʲ] Jālooj [tʲælʲoːtʲ] [2] coral atoll of 91 islands in the Pacific Ocean and forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands . Its total land area is 11.34 square kilometers (4.38 sq mi ), and it encloses a lagoon with an area of 690 square kilometers (270 sq mi ). Most of the land area is on the largest islet (motu ) of Jaluit (10.4 km 2 mi ) southwest of Majuro . Jaluit Atoll is a designated conservation area and Ramsar Wetland.
In 2021 the population of the islands of Jaluit Atoll was 1,409.[3] administrative seat of the Marshall Islands.
History
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The British merchant vessel Rolla [4] convicts from Britain to New South Wales and was on her way to China to find a cargo to take back to Britain.
In 1885, the German Empire annexed Jaluit Atoll and the other Marshall Islands as protectorate.[5] Jaluit Company on behalf of Germany’s colonial government. German imperial commissars (Kaiserliche Kommissare
1886–1888 Dr. jur. Wilhelm Knappe (1855–1910)
1888–1888 Dr. Franz Leopold Sonnenschein (1857–1897)
1889–1891 Friedrich Louis Max Biermann
1891–1894 Dr. Karl Wilhelm Schmidt (b. 4 March 1859 in Braunschweig)
11 May 1894 – March 1898 Georg Irmer (b. 1853 – d. 1931)
24 March 1898 – 18 January 1906 Eugen Brandeis (b. 1846 – d. 1919) (acting to 22 February 1900)
18 January 1906 – May 1906 Ludwig Kaiser (acting) (b. 1862 – d. 1906)
1 April 1906 – 3 October 1914 the governors of German New Guinea ; afterwards the jurisdiction was downgraded to district, under a Bezirksamtmann
After World War I , the island became a part of the South Seas Mandate , a mandated territory of the Empire of Japan , and was the seat of the Japanese administration over the Marshall Islands. Immigrants from Japan numbered several hundred by the 1930s. During World War II the island's Japanese garrison consisted of 1,584 men of the Imperial Japanese Navy and 727 men of the Imperial Japanese Army .[6] B-24 Liberator bombers of the USAAF 7th Air Force . The island became part of the vast US Naval Base Marshall Islands .
Following World War II, Jaluit came under the control of the United States as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands until the independence of the Marshall Islands in 1986.
Geography
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Jaluit Atoll's lagoon is shaped roughly like a kite .
The islet of Jabor (Jebwad [tʲɛbˠ(ɔ)wɑrʲ] [7]
Imiej (Im̧wej [imwi̯etʲ] [7] Imperial Japanese Navy garrison and was a major seaplane base. The ruins of the power station, barracks, antiaircraft guns and a Shinto shrine remain.
Education
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Marshall Islands Public School System operates public schools.
High schools:[8]
Primary schools:[10]
Imiej Elementary School
Imroj Elementary School
Jabnoden Elementary School
Jabor Elementary School - Jabor
Jaluit Elementary School
Mejrirok Elementary School
Narmej Elementary School
St. Joseph's School
Private schools:
Jabor has St. Josephs, attached to the Catholic Church .
Transportation
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Jaluit Airport is served by Air Marshall Islands .
Twin towns
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Jaluit is twinned with:
Notes
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^ "Republic of the Marshall Islands 2021 Census Report, Volume 1: Basic Tables and Administrative Report" (PDF) . Pacific Community (SPC): Statistics for Development Division . Pacific Community . May 30, 2023. Retrieved September 27, 2023 .
^ Hezel (1994), p. 82.
^ Churchill, William (1920). "Germany's Lost Pacific Empire". Geographical Review . 10 2 ): 84. JSTOR 207706 .
^ Takizawa, Akira; Alsleben, Allan (1999–2000). "Japanese garrisons on the by-passed Pacific Islands 1944-1945" . Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942 . Archived from the original on 2016-01-06.
^ a b "Marshallese-English Dictionary" . Archived from the original on 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2011-04-20 .
^ "Secondary Schools Division Archived 2018-02-21 at the Wayback Machine ." Marshall Islands Public School System . Retrieved on February 21, 2018.
^ http://www.pacificmagazine.net/news/2008/06/01/power-cuts-increase-jaluits-remoteness [dead link
^ "Public Schools Archived 2018-02-21 at the Wayback Machine ." Marshall Islands Public School System . Retrieved on February 21, 2018.
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