Bikini Atoll

Bikini Atoll, known as Eschscholtz Atoll between the 19th century and 1946, is a coral reef in the consisting of 23 islands surrounding a 229.4-square-mile central lagoon.
  • Island
  • …has 13 residents
  • …has the IATA airport code BII
  • …is abbreviated as “SEIZURE”
  • Description: atoll of the Marshall Islands, former site of nuclear tests
  • Also known as
    “Bigini”
    “Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands”
    “Bikini Island”
    “Escacholtz Island”
    “Eschholtz Atoll”
    “Eschocholtz Atoll”
    “Escholtz”
    “Eschscholtz”
    “Eschscholtz Atoll”
    “Eschscholtz Islands”
    “Pikinni”
    “Pikinni-tō”
    “Udia-Milai”

Bikini Atoll

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Latitude
11.6241° or 11° 37′ 27″ north
Longitude
165.54214° or 165° 32′ 32″ east
Open location code
7V37JGFR+JV
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bikini Atoll” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bikini-atol”
  • Afrikaans: “Bikini-ringeiland”
  • Arabic: “حلقية بيكيني”
  • Asturian: “Atolón Bikini”
  • Basque: “Bikini atoloia”
  • Belarusian: “Атол Бікіні”
  • Belarusian: “Бікіні”
  • Breton: “Atoll Bikini”
  • Breton: “Enez Bikini”
  • Bulgarian: “Бикини”
  • Catalan: “Atol de Bikini”
  • Cebuano: “Bikini Atoll (pulong kagaangan)”
  • Cebuano: “Bikini Atoll”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەتۆڵی بیکینی”
  • Chinese: “比基尼岛”
  • Chinese: “比基尼环礁”
  • Chinese: “比基尼环礁的核试验基地”
  • Chinese: “比基尼環礁”
  • Chinese: “比堅尼島”
  • Chinese: “比堅尼環礁”
  • Croatian: “Atol Bikini”
  • Croatian: “Bikini”
  • Czech: “Atol Bikini”
  • Czech: “Bikini”
  • Danish: “Bikini-atollen”
  • Dutch: “Bikini Atol”
  • Dutch: “Bikini”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اتول بيكينى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة بيكينى”
  • Esperanto: “Bikini Atolo”
  • Estonian: “Bikini atoll”
  • Estonian: “Bikini”
  • Estonian: “Eschscholtzi atoll”
  • Estonian: “Pikinni”
  • Finnish: “Bikini-atolli”
  • Finnish: “Bikiniatolli”
  • Finnish: “Bikinin atolli”
  • French: “Atoll Bikini”
  • French: “Bikini”
  • Galician: “Atol Bikini”
  • Georgian: “ბიკინის ატოლი”
  • German: “Biginni-Inseln”
  • German: “Bikini-Atoll”
  • German: “Bikini-Inseln”
  • German: “Bikiniatoll”
  • German: “Eschscholtz-Inseln”
  • Greek: “Ατόλη Μπικίνι”
  • Hebrew: “אטול ביקיני”
  • Hebrew: “ביקיני”
  • Hindi: “बिकिनी एटोल”
  • Hungarian: “Bikini Atoll”
  • Hungarian: “Bikini-atoll”
  • Ido: “Atolo Bikini”
  • Ido: “Atolo di Bikini”
  • Ido: “Bikini Atolo”
  • Indonesian: “Atol Bikini”
  • Inupiaq: “Pikini”
  • Italian: “Atollo Bikini”
  • Italian: “Atollo di Bikini”
  • Japanese: “ビキニ島”
  • Japanese: “ビキニ環礁”
  • Javanese: “Atol Bikini”
  • Kölsch: “Bikini-Atoll”
  • Korean: “비키니 산호섬”
  • Korean: “비키니 환초”
  • Korean: “비키니섬”
  • Latvian: “Bikini atols”
  • Lithuanian: “Bikinis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bikini-Atoll”
  • Macedonian: “Бикини”
  • Malay: “Atol Bikini”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer tal-Qroll ta‘ Bikini”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer tal-Qroll ta’ Bikini”
  • Marathi: “बिकिनी एटॉल”
  • Marathi: “बिकिनी एटोल”
  • Nepali: “बिकिनी एटोल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bikiniatollen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bikiniøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bikiniatollen”
  • Norwegian: “Bikiniatollen”
  • Persian: “آب سنگ بیکینی”
  • Persian: “آب سنگ حلقوی بیکینی”
  • Persian: “آب‌سنگ بیکینی”
  • Persian: “آب‌سنگ حلقوی بیکینی”
  • Persian: “آتول بیکینی”
  • Persian: “اب سنگ بیکینی”
  • Persian: “اب‌سنگ بیکینی”
  • Persian: “اتول بیکینی”
  • Persian: “بیکینی آتول”
  • Persian: “بیکینی”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ مرجانی بیکینی”
  • Polish: “Atol Bikini”
  • Polish: “Bikini”
  • Portuguese: “Atol Bikini”
  • Portuguese: “Atol de Bikini”
  • Russian: “Атолл Бикини”
  • Russian: “Атолл Эшшольца”
  • Russian: “Бикини”
  • Scots: “Bikini Atoll”
  • Serbian: “Бикини атол”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bikini”
  • Slovak: “Atol Bikini”
  • Slovenian: “atol Bikini”
  • Spanish: “Atolon Bikini”
  • Spanish: “Atolón Bikini”
  • Spanish: “Atolon de Bikini”
  • Spanish: “Atolón de Bikini”
  • Spanish: “Islas Bikini”
  • Swahili: “Bikini”
  • Swedish: “Bikiniatollen”
  • Swiss German: “Bikini-Atoll”
  • Thai: “บิกีนีอะทอลล์”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะบิกีนี”
  • Turkish: “Bikini Atolü”
  • Ukrainian: “Бікіні”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ بیکینی”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo san hô Bikini”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo san hô vòng Bikini”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu thử nghiệm hạt nhân trên Đảo san hô vòng Bikini”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Atol Bikini”
  • Welsh: “Atol Bikini”
  • Yue Chinese: “比堅尼環礁”

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