Runit Island

Runit Island is one of forty islands of the of the in the Pacific Ocean. The island is the site of a radioactive waste repository left by the United States after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on Enewetak Atoll between 1946 and 1958.
Wikipedia
  • Islet
  • …lies at an elevation of 7 metres (23 feet)
  • Description: island in the Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands
  • Also known as
    “Hawthorn”
    “Runit”
    “Rūnitto-tō”
    “Ruunitto”
    “Yvonne”

Runit Island

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Latitude
11.54407° or 11° 32′ 39″ north
Longitude
162.35162° or 162° 21′ 6″ east
Open location code
7V34G9V2+JJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 23720375
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
2079966
Wiki­data ID
Q20795448

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Uzbek—“Runit Island” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Runit”
  • Belarusian: “Руніт”
  • Breton: “Enezenn Runit”
  • Bulgarian: “Рунит”
  • Cebuano: “Runit”
  • Central Bikol: “Isla Runit”
  • Chinese: “魯尼特島”
  • Czech: “Runit”
  • French: “Runit”
  • German: “Runit”
  • Hungarian: “Runit-sziget”
  • Italian: “Runit”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Runit Island”
  • Norwegian: “Runit Island”
  • Russian: “Рунит”
  • Spanish: “Runit”
  • Swedish: “Runit”
  • Turkish: “Runit Adası”
  • Turkish: “Runit”
  • Uzbek: “Runit oroli”

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