Kwajalein
Kwajalein is an atoll in the Marshall Islands. Although a restricted US Department of Defense missile research and testing site, and not accessible to the general public, Kwajalein is home to around 1,800 Americans who live and work there.Photo: Matt Kieffer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: Pacific atoll, part of the Marshall Islands
- Also known as: “Kuwajleen”, “Kwajalein Atoll”, and “Kwajalein, Marshall Islands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ronald Reagan Space and Missile Test Range and Bucholz Army Airfield.
Ronald Reagan Space and Missile Test Range
Military installation
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Ronald Reagan Space and Missile Test Range, commonly referred to as the Reagan Test Range, is a missile test range in the Marshall Islands. It covers about 750,000 square miles and includes rocket launch sites at the Kwajalein Atoll, Wake Island, and Aur Atoll.
Bucholz Army Airfield
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bucholz Army Airfield is a United States Army airfield located on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. Its position is ideal for refueling during trans-Pacific flights, and the airport is available to civilians through Air Marshall Islands and United Airlines, mostly for the Island Hopper.
Kwajalein
- Categories: atoll, administrative territorial entity, reef island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Ralik, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
8.7307° or 8° 43′ 51″ northLongitude
167.7282° or 167° 43′ 42″ eastPopulation
10,900Open location code
6VW9PPJH+77OpenStreetMap ID
way 23709655OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
7303502Wikidata ID
Q309172
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kwajalein” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة كواجالين”
- Asturian: “Kwajalein”
- Basque: “Kwajalein atoloia”
- Belarusian: “Атол Кваджалейн”
- Belarusian: “Кваджалейн”
- Bulgarian: “Куаджалин”
- Catalan: “Kwajalein”
- Cebuano: “Kwajalein”
- Chinese: “夸贾林岛”
- Chinese: “夸贾林环礁”
- Chinese: “瓜加林”
- Chinese: “瓜加林環礁”
- Chinese: “瓜吉”
- Croatian: “Kwajalein”
- Czech: “Kwajalein”
- Danish: “Kwajalein”
- Dutch: “Kwajalein”
- Esperanto: “Kwajalein”
- Finnish: “Kwajalein”
- French: “Atoll Kwajalein”
- French: “Kwajalein”
- Galician: “Atol Kwajalein”
- Galician: “Kwajalein”
- Georgian: “კვაჯალეინი”
- German: “Kwajalein-Atoll”
- German: “Kwajalein”
- German: “MH-KWA”
- Hebrew: “אטול קווג’לין”
- Hebrew: “קווג’לין”
- Hungarian: “Kwajalein-atoll”
- Indonesian: “Atol Kwajalein”
- Italian: “Atollo di Kwajalein”
- Italian: “Kwajalein”
- Japanese: “クェゼリン”
- Japanese: “クェゼリン島”
- Japanese: “クェゼリン環礁”
- Japanese: “クワジェリン島”
- Japanese: “クワジャリン”
- Japanese: “クワジャリン島”
- Japanese: “クワジャリン環礁”
- Korean: “콰잘레인 환초”
- Latin: “Kwajalein”
- Lithuanian: “Kvadžaleinas”
- Macedonian: “Кваџалејн”
- Malay: “Atol Kwajalein”
- Malay: “Kwajalein”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kwajalein”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kwajaleinatollen”
- Norwegian: “Kwajalein”
- Persian: “آبسنگ حلقوی کواجالین”
- Persian: “کواجالین”
- Polish: “Atol Kwajalein”
- Polish: “Kwajalein”
- Portuguese: “Kwajalein”
- Romanian: “Atolul Kwajalein”
- Romanian: “Kwajalein”
- Russian: “Атолл Кваджалейн”
- Russian: “Атолл Кваджелейн”
- Russian: “Атолл Меншикова”
- Russian: “Атолл Меньшикова”
- Russian: “Кваджалейн”
- Russian: “Кваджелейн”
- Russian: “Меншикова атолл”
- Slovak: “Kwajalein”
- Slovenian: “Kwajalein”
- Spanish: “Atolon de Kwajalein”
- Spanish: “Atolón de Kwajalein”
- Spanish: “Atolon Kwajalein”
- Spanish: “Atolón Kwajalein”
- Spanish: “Kwajalein”
- Swedish: “Kwajalein”
- Turkish: “Kwajalein Atolü”
- Ukrainian: “Кваджалейн”
- Urdu: “کواجالئین جزیرہ مرجانی”
- Vietnamese: “Kwajalein”
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