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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 Republic of the Marshall Islands includes 29 atolls and five islands in the central Pacific Ocean. Atolls are reefs, or chains, of coral that surround a lagoon (a shallow area of water). The countryâs capital is on Majuro Atoll.