The atoll has long been a maritime hazard and is the site of numerous shipwrecks.

The atoll has no economic activity.

Wake Island is a volcanic island that has become an atoll

An atoll is an island formed from a coral reef that has grown on an eroded and submerged volcanic island.

Since the base was closed, the atoll is likely to have been visited by sailing vessels crossing the Pacific, as the deserted atoll has a strong lure due to the activities once performed there.

The island has the greatest land area of any coral atoll in the world: about ; its lagoon is about the same size.

The largest island, Wake Island, is the center of activity on the atoll and is the location of Wake Island Airfield, which has a runway.

However, Bermuda is what is termed a pseudo-atoll because its general form, while resembling that of an atoll, has a very different mode of formation.

At this point, the island has become an atoll.

On average, each atoll has approximately 5 to 10 inhabited islands ; the uninhabited islands of each atoll number approximately 20 to 60.

The atoll itself has a land area of and encloses a lagoon of.

Laura has the highest elevation point on the atoll, estimated at less than 10 feet above sea level.

* Ebeye is not part of the Reagan Test Site ; it is a Marshallese island-city with shops, restaurants and an active commercial port, It has the largest population in the atoll, with approximately 13, 000 residents living on 80 acres ( 320, 000 m² ) of land.

Like many other key islets in the atoll, it has much cultural and spiritual significance in Marshallese cosmology.

Kwajalein atoll has been leased by the United States for missile testing and various other operations from well-prior to independence for the Marshall Islands.

Although this military history has influenced the lives of the Marshall Islanders who have lived in the atoll through the war to the present, the military history of Kwajalein has prevented tourism and has kept the environment in relatively pristine condition.

* Enewetak, an atoll whose airport has IATA airport code ENT

The atoll has a lagoon () that provides sheltered anchorage.

" Ouba Islet Resort " is an eco-tourism resort on Ouba island in the north-western perimeter of the atoll, which has been operating since July, 2006.

The atoll of Tupai has no permanent population apart from some workers in the coconut plantations.

Pigs that had previously inhabited Clipperton had been eradicated prior to this time, though the crewmen reported seeing their skeletons around the atoll.

Guyots show evidence of having been above the surface with gradual subsidence through stages from fringed reefed mountain, coral atoll, and finally a flat topped submerged mountain.

Nuclear refugees from the atolls irradiated by the American tests were also moved to Ebeye, and in 1964, when the United States initiated its Anti-ballistic missile testing program with the Nike-Zeus program in Kwajalein Atoll, authorities moved also the remaining Marshall Islanders who lived scattered on their land throughout the atoll to the small shantytown of Ebeye which had been erected with plywood housing by American contractors.

The BBC were dependent upon the RAF for developing the atoll and without this their own ambitions would not have been feasible.

There have been some changes in the geography of this atoll since the first maps were published in the mid-19th century.

Along with its neighboring atoll, Moruroa, it has been the site of approximately 200 nuclear bomb tests.

Despite openings into the lagoon being permanently closed by anti-submarine nets, the German U-boat U-183 torpedoed the tanker British Loyalty in March 1944 ( she had been previously torpedoed and sunk at Diego Suarez ); it was an impressive long-range shot from outside the atoll through a gap in the anti-torpedo nets.

Birds that have been recorded nesting on the atoll include the Red-billed Tropicbird, Red-tailed Tropicbird, Fairy Tern, Great Frigatebird, Bristle-thighed Curlew, Masked Booby and Red-footed Booby.

The best book on his scientific work on the Gilbertese Culture has been published by Henry Evans Maude, Tungaru Traditions: writings on the atoll culture of the Gilbert Islands, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1989, ISBN 0-8248-1217-4

Once the vacation spot for Tahitian royalty, the atoll is widely known for having been purchased by Marlon Brando.

In 1789, William Bligh is said to have been the first European to visit the atoll while looking for the Bounty mutineers.

Despite openings into the lagoon being permanently closed by anti-submarine nets, the German U-boat U-183 torpedoed the tanker British Loyalty in March 1944 ( she had been previously torpedoed and sunk at Diego Suarez ); it was an impressive long-range shot from outside the atoll through a gap in the anti-torpedo nets.

The atoll may have been discovered c. 600s AD by Arabian sailors.

The atoll has been protected from human influence and is home to some 100, 000 giant tortoises, the world's largest population of the animal.

The atoll is thought to have been discovered around 1570 by Portuguese sailors, which is why it is also known under its Portuguese name Baxio Predassa ( a corruption of Baixo Predassa ).

The existence of the atoll might not have been known by Japanese until 1888.

Alifushi, located at the northern end of the atoll, is an island which has been traditionally famous for its skilled boatbuilding carpenters.

Many of the islands in this atoll have been inhabited since ancient times and have arqueological remains from the Maldivian Buddhist period.

No remains from the Buddhist period have been found on this atoll.

On September 29, 1914, Japanese troops occupied the atoll of Enewetak, and on September 30, 1914 the atoll of Jaluit the administrative center of the Marshall Islands.

The communal buildings of the area on the north side of Cooper Island ( the only occupied area of the atoll ) consist of a common cooking and dining building next to the only sea dock, and there is a kayak and scuba diving equipment storage building adjacent to this.

In World War II the atoll was occupied by the Japanese.