Wotje Atoll is an atoll of 75 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is a legislative district of the Marshall Islands. Wotje's land area is 3.16 sq mi (8 km²), but it encloses a lagoon of 241.06 sq mi (624 km²). 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 or peninsula. ... This mid bay barrier in Narrabeen, a suburb of Sydney (Australia), has blocked what used to be a bay to form a lagoon. ...
The population of the islands in atoll (as of 1999) was 846. For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album) 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Wotje is located at 9deg.21'-9deg.34'N and 169deg.49'-170deg.07'E and belongs to the northern group of atolls on the Ratak Chain.
Wotje (population ~650) is the largest island on WotjeAtoll, some 60 flight minutes north of Majuro and some 50 minutes northeast of Kwajalein.
The garrison of Wotje, at peak strength in December 1943, consisted on 3,298 men, 2,103 Navy and 429 Army personnel, and 766 civilian (and Korean) construction workers under the command of Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Nobukazu Yoshimi, of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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