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Hace 3 días · The Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
27 de abr. de 2024 · Marshall Islands, country in the central Pacific Ocean. It consists of some of the easternmost islands of Micronesia . The Marshalls are composed of more than 1,200 island s and islets in two parallel chains of coral atoll s—the Ratak, or Sunrise, to the east and the Ralik, or Sunset, to the west.
24 de abr. de 2024 · The traditional hierarchy continued even after contact with Europeans in the early 1500s. Spain formally claimed the islands in 1592, but few other Europeans passed by the islands in the next two centuries. In 1788, British sea captain John MARSHALL undertook an exploratory voyage, and the islands were mapped in the early 1800s by Russian ...
11 de abr. de 2024 · Majuro, atoll in the Ratak (eastern) chain of the Marshall Islands and capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, in the western Pacific Ocean. The atoll comprises 64 islets on an elliptically shaped reef 25 miles (40 km) long and has a total land area of 4 square miles (10 square km).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 3 días · Map of Micronesian languages; Marshallese is spoken in the orange area. Marshallese (Marshallese: Kajin M̧ajeļ or Kajin Majōl [kɑzʲinʲ (i)mˠɑːzʲɛlˠ] ), also known as Ebon, is a Micronesian language spoken in the Marshall Islands.
20 de abr. de 2024 · The Marshall Island stick charts represent a unique and non-Western tradition of mapmaking. Whereas Western maps generally attempt to capture and visualize distance and space, the charts of the Marshallese dwelt not just on general direction, with shells representing nearby islands, but, more importantly, ocean currents and swell ...
26 de abr. de 2024 · It is composed of more than 600 islands and islets in the Caroline Islands archipelago and is divided roughly along cultural and linguistic lines into the states of—from west to east— Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae.
