MARSHALL ISLANDS

MARSHALL ISLANDS / AORŌKIN M̧AJEĻ

Definitive stamps.
Map of Jaluit Atoll.
Fouth stamp in a set of 10, issued on 12.06.1984.
Face value: 10 cents of United States dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 20 x 23 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 8A.
- Scott No. 38.
- StampWorld No. 8.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 8.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 48.

Jaluit Atoll (Marshallese: Jālwōj or Jālooj) is a large 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 km² (4.38 sq mi), and it encloses a lagoon with an area of 690 km² (270 sq mi). Most of the land area is on the largest islet of Jaluit (10.4 km²). Jaluit Atoll is a designated conservation area and Ramsar Wetland. In 2011 the population of the islands of Jaluit Atoll was 1,788. It was the former administrative seat of the Marshall Islands. In 1884, the German Empire claimed Jaluit Atoll, along with the rest of the Marshall Islands, and the Germans established a trading outpost. Jaluit became a German protectorate on September 13, 1886 and had several imperial commissars (Kaiserliche Kommissare). 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 was bombed on at least five occasions in November and December 1943 by B-24 Liberator bombers of the USAAF 7th Air Force. 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.

MARSHALL ISLANDS

MARSHALL ISLANDS / AORŌKIN M̧AJEĻ

Definitive stamps.
Map of Ebon Atoll.
Third stamp in a set of 10, issued on 12.06.1984.
Face value: 5 cents of US dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 20 x 23 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 7A.
- Scott No. 37.
- StampWorld No. 7.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 7.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 47.

Ebon (Marshallese: Epoon) is a coral atoll of 22 islands in the Pacific Ocean, forming a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its land area is 5.75 km² (2.22 sq mi), and it encloses a deep lagoon with an area of ​​104 km² (40 sq mi). A winding passage, the Ebon Channel, leads to the lagoon from the southwest edge of the atoll. In documents and accounts from the 1800s, it was also known as Boston, Covell's Group, Fourteen Islands, and Linnez. Ebon Atoll was visited by commercial whaling vessels in the 19th century. The first such vessel on record was the Newark in 1837. Missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Boston began missionary activities in the Marshall Islands in 1857, establishing a mission at Ebon. The atoll was claimed by the Empire of Germany along with the rest of the Marshall Islands in 1884, and the Germans established a trading outpost. After World War I, the island came under the South Seas Mandate of the Empire of Japan, which had a garrison there late in World War II. At the end of WW II, Ebon Atoll became a part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under the control of the United States, until the independence of the Marshall Islands in 1986. In 2011, the population of the atoll was 706 people.

MARSHALL ISLANDS

MARSHALL ISLANDS / AORŌKIN M̧AJEĻ

Definitive stamps.
Map of Likiep Atoll.
Second stamp in a set of 10, isued on 12.06.1984.
Face value: 3 cent of US dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 20 x 23 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 6A.
- Scott No. 36.
- StampWorld No. 6.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 6.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 46.

The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), is an island country and an associated state of the United States in the Pacific Ocean, north the Equator. Geographically, the country is part of Micronesia. The republic's population, of 58,413 people (2018 Census), is spread out over 29 coral atolls, comprising 1,156 islands and islets. The capital and largest city is Majuro. The total area of the landmass is 181.43 km2 (70.05 sq mi). Islands in the archipelago were first explored in the 1520s by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano. Spain claimed the islands in 1592, and the European powers recognized its sovereignty in 1874. In 1885 Spain sold some of the islands to the German Empire. In World War I, Japan occupied the archipielago, and in 1920 the League of Nations combined with other former German territories to form the South Seas Mandate. During World War II, the United States took control of the islands. Nuclear testing began on Bikini Atoll in 1946 and concluded in 1958. In May 1, 1979 Marshall Islands proclaimed their independence, but full sovereignty or self-government was achieved in a Compact of Free Association with the United States.

Likiep is a 65-island atoll in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is only 10.26 km² (3.96 sq mi), but that encloses a deep central lagoon of 424 km² (164 sq mi). Likiep Atoll also possesses the Marshall Islands' highest point, an unnamed knoll 10 m (33 ft) above sea level. The population of the atoll was 401 in 2011.

MARSHALL ISLANDS

MARSHALL ISLANDS / AORŌKIN M̧AJEĻ.

Definitive stamps.
Map of Mili Atoll.
First stamp in a set of 10, isued on 12.06.1984.
Face value: 1 cent of US dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 20 x 23 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 5A.
- Scott No. 35.
- StampWorld No. 5.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 5.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 45.

The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), is an island country and an associated state of the United States in the Pacific Ocean, north the Equator. Geographically, the country is part of Micronesia. The republic's population, of 58,413 people (2018 Census), is spread out over 29 coral atolls, comprising 1,156 islands and islets. The capital and largest city is Majuro. The total area of the landmass is 181.43 km² (70.05 sq mi). Islands in the archipelago were first explored in the 1520s by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano. Spain claimed the islands in 1592, and the European powers recognized its sovereignty in 1874. In 1885 Spain sold some of the islands to the German Empire. In World War I, Japan occupied the archipielago, and in 1920 the League of Nations combined with other former German territories to form the South Seas Mandate. During World War II, the United States took control of the islands. Nuclear testing began on Bikini Atoll in 1946 and concluded in 1958. In May 1, 1979 Marshall Islands proclaimed their independence, but full sovereignty or self-government was achieved in a Compact of Free Association with the United States.

Mili is a 92-island coral atoll and forms the legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total area is 14.9 km² (5.8 sq mi). Its population was 738 people in 2011. It has a small airport.