Marshall Islands
Post Offices from 29.3.1889 to 8.11.1914
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The Marshall Islands form the easternmost part of Micronesia (‘Polynesia’
because of the innumerable small islands found in this region). They
extend roughly from 162 to 174 degrees longitude East and from the Equator
to 16 degrees latitude North. Only the island of Nauru which was part of
the Colony overstepped the Equator by 1 degree to the South. The Marshall
Islands form essentially two chains of atolls running north to south. The
western chain is known as the Rälik Islands and the western as Ratak
Group. There are almost 900 atolls, some small, even tiny, islets covering
in total about 400 sq. kms and in 1913 with some 10,000 inhabitants.
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