Word: rongerik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring of 1946, the 161 inhabitants of Bikini sailed away. They carried a few pandanus leaves for thatch and their Bibles and Congregational hymnals. Their unhappy migration took them first to nearby Rongerik atoll, then to Kwajalein, and finally to Kili, the inhospitable, rocky, isolated islet where they have scratched out a poverty-stricken existence for the last 21 years...