Runit
Marshall Islands /
Enewetak /
Japtan /
World
/ Marshall Islands
/ Enewetak
/ Japtan
World
island, dome, nuclear testing area
Runit is an island on the eastern fringe of Enewetak Atoll.
Site of a couple of nuclear tests the strongest being Ivy King detonated at 2000 feet with a yield of 550 kilotons. After the Cactus shot made a crater the nuclear cleanup team put all the radioactive material in it and covered it up
Site of a couple of nuclear tests the strongest being Ivy King detonated at 2000 feet with a yield of 550 kilotons. After the Cactus shot made a crater the nuclear cleanup team put all the radioactive material in it and covered it up
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit_Island
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 11°32'39"N 162°21'6"E
- Enewetak 21 km
- Enewetak Atoll 38 km
- Bikini atoll 310 km
- Bikini 346 km
- Rongelap Atoll 465 km
- Rongerik Atoll 546 km
- Wilkes Island - Wake Island Atoll 976 km
- Wake Island Atoll 978 km
- Wake Island - Wake Island Atoll 978 km
- Peale Island - Wake Island Atoll 979 km
- Deep Entrance 15 km
- Hardtack 1 Koa shot crater 22 km
- Ivy Mike Crater 22 km
- Hardtack Oak Crater 28 km
- Romeo Crater 318 km
- Redwing Tewa crater 326 km
- Castle Union and Yankee craters 334 km
- Operation Crossroads Shots ABLE & BAKER 344 km
- Approximate Position of sunken ships of July 1946 344 km
- Wake Island Airfield (PWAK) 977 km