Kwajalein Atoll

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Kwajalein Atoll [r]: An atoll within the Marshall Islands, site of major combat in the Second World War as the location of the main Japanese bases in Micronesia, and with a major U.S. ballistic missile defense test and surveillance site on Kwajalein Island, the largest and southernmost island of the group [e]

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