Eniwetok
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- proper noun
- /ˌɛniˈwɛtɒk/
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Eniwetok
- I flew 51 missions from there: Makin, Majuro, Quajaline, and Eniwetok, bombing Jaluit, Wotji, Ocean Ponape, and other islands in the Central Pacific.
Examples
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Samples were needed from more areas of the Pacific around the US test sites at Bikini and Eniwetok in the mid-Pacific, as well as those regions of North America covered by prevailing winds from the USSR.
Academic text (1996) -
The Pacific atoll of Eniwetok was chosen to be the site of the world's first thermonuclear explosion.
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All his others, nearly a steady year's worth from such war addresses as Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Eniwetok, Luzon, and Okinawa, went the way of discard and loss.
Fiction book (1993) -
Not until 1950—while attempting to destroy Eniwetok, an atoll in the Marshall Islands, near the equator in the Pacific Ocean—did science find definitive answers.
Academic text (2009) -
American soldiers and Marines land on Eniwetok in the northern Marshall Islands, meeting stiff resistance.
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U.S. troops prepare to land on Eniwetok, the westernmost atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Synonyms
A ring of islands in the Marshall Islands where the US tested nuclear bombs after a WWII battle
Compounds
A battle in February 1944 when American forces captured the Japanese-held atoll of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands
Surface Forms
Etymology
Eniwetok comes from the Marshallese name Enewetak, the local name for this group of small islands, so it is simply the atoll's own name. That's why Eniwetok is the name of the atoll in the Marshall Islands and is known for a World War II battle and later U.S. nuclear testing.