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In the following years rough seas and infrequent visits by the field trip ships caused food supplies to run critically low many times on the island and once even required an airdrop of emergency food rations. Diving Micronesia by Eric Hanauer: Retrieved 14 August In March , malnourished Bikini islanders were relocated again to Kwajalein Atoll. These dates are given in US Eastern time zone The days of the week are a day earlier than they were at Bikini. Archived from the original on 16 August Retrieved 10 July

Ironically, the bikini's design violates the Marshall Islanders' modern customs of modesty because it exposes a woman's thighs and shoulders. Their symptoms also included burning eyes and swelling of the neck, arms, and legs. Relations With Marshall Island". The Japanese administered the island under the South Pacific Mandate , but mostly left local affairs in the hands of traditional local leaders until the start of World War II. Archived from the original on 27 September Some were able to return to Bikini Island in ; however, further testing revealed dangerous levels of strontium The first of a series of long-term field experiments was established on Bikini Island during the late s to evaluate potential remediation techniques to reduce the uptake of cesium into plants Robison and Stone,

The underwater nuclear explosions carved large holes in the bottom of the lagoon that were partially refilled by blast debris. Report back to Critiki:. Mason requested that food be brought to the islanders on Rongerik immediately along with a medical officer. They decided to use Enewetak Atoll as a second nuclear weapons test site and relocated that atoll's residents to Ujelang Atoll instead and to the homes built for the Bikini Islanders. The inhabitants of Rongelap and Rongerik Atolls were evacuated by US servicemen two days after the detonation, but the residents of the more distant Utrik Atoll weren't evacuated for three days.