Ailinglaplap is an atoll and municipality of 56 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is a legislative district of the Marshall Islands, located in the Ralik Chain. It is located 152 km northwest of Jaluit Atoll. Its total land area is only 5.67 sq mi (14.7 km²), but it encloses a lagoon of 289.69 sq mi (750 km²). The dominant plant on the atoll are coconut plantations. An atoll is a type of low, coral island found in tropical oceans and consisting of a coral-algal reef usually surrounding an interior body of water called a lagoon. ... The Ralik Chain is a chain of islands within the island nation of the Marshall Islands. ... Jaluit Atoll is an atoll of 91 islands in the Pacific Ocean. ... This mid bay barrier in Narrabeen, a suburb of Sydney (Australia), has blocked what used to be a bay to form a lagoon. ... Binomial name Cocos nucifera L. For other uses, see Coconut (disambiguation). ...
"Ailinglaplap" translates as "greatest atoll" ('aelon' (atoll) + 'laplap' (superlative suffix)), because the greatest legends of the Marshallese people were created there. The four major population centers on Ailinglaplap Atoll are the settlements of Woja, at the westernmost end of the atoll, Jeh in the northeast, and Airok and Bouj in the south.
The population of the atoll was 1,959 as of 1999. The current president of the Marshall Islands, Kessai Note was born at Ailinglaplap Atoll. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Kessai Hesa Note (born August 7, 1950 in Ailinglaplap) is the president of the Marshall Islands. ...
AILINGLAPLAPATOLL, Marshall Islands — To visit this lovely, remote necklace of islands where credit cards are useless and money has limited value, an invitation from the iroij (chief) or a local family is essential.
On Sunday afternoon, housewives on AilinglaplapAtoll dry the laundry in the front yard.
One of the popular hobbies on Ailinglaplap and the other atolls is racing model outrigger sailing canoes called riwuds, or something like that.
The territorial claim by the Republic of the Marshall Islands on Wake Atoll leaves a certain amount of ambiguity regarding the actual or hypothetical role of the US military, responsible under agreement for the defence of Marshallese territory, in the event of any strategic crisis or hostilities involving Wake.
The Atoll was formally annexed by the US in the 19th century and is still administered by the US Department of the Interior.
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