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Eniwetok Atoll, the target assigned to Admiral Hill's task group, lies 330 nautical miles northwest of Kwajalein.8 It is a typical Central Pacific coral atoll with a circular reef surrounding a lagoon, which at its widest point is seventeen miles from east to west and twenty-one miles from north to south.
the isolated reef, located in the Marshall Islands of the central Pacific, that was the site of US nuclear bomb tests, consequently contaminating the atoll with high levels of radiation and driving its inhabitants away.