Knox Atoll

NASA picture of Knox Atoll
Knox Atoll
Geography
Location	North Pacific
Coordinates	05°54′00″N 172°09′00″E / 5.90000°N 172.15000°E / 5.90000; 172.15000
Archipelago	Ratak
Total islands	18
Area	0.98 km2 (0.38 sq mi)
Highest elevation	3 m (10 ft)
Administration
Marshall Islands
Demographics
Population	0

Knox Atoll (Marshallese: Ņadikdik, [nˠɑːrʲiɡ(i)rʲik]^[1]) is an uninhabited coral atoll of 18 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and is the southernmost atoll of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. The total land area is only 0.98 square kilometers (0.38 sq mi), but it encloses a largely sand-filled lagoon with an area of 3.42 square kilometers (1.32 sq mi). The atoll measures 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) in length and is 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) wide. The largest islets, located on the western and northern sides, include Aelingeo, Nadikdik and Nariktal. The atoll is separated by the Klee Passage from the southern point of Mili Atoll to which it was once connected.

Knox Atoll was claimed by the German Empire along with the rest of the Marshall Islands in 1885.^[2] After World War I, the island came under the South Seas Mandate of the Empire of Japan. Following the end of World War II, it 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.

On 30 June 1905 the atoll of Nadikdik was completely washed over by a huge typhoon that stripped the atoll down to the bare coral. Almost all of the some 60 inhabitants perished, save by two boys who survived a 24-hour drift voyage clinging on a breadfruit tree. In the century since then, the islands have largely regenerated.

• Desert island
• List of islands

• Marshall Islands site
• Oceandots entry for Knox Atoll at the Wayback Machine (archived December 23, 2010)
• 1905 Typhoon
• Nadikdik geomorphic adjustment & regeneration

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