Mili Atoll

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For a disambiguation page for Mili, see Milli, an alternative spelling of Mili.

Mili Atoll is an atoll of 92 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is a legislative district of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is only 6.15 mile² (16 km²), but it encloses a lagoon of 294.7 mile² (763 km²). The main village is also called Mili. Mili, Mili (like New York, New York) is littered with thousands of old World War II relics. The law forbids these items from being removed from the island. Mostly what remains are large bunker systems, rail systems, old artillery pieces and downed aircraft that remain intact until today. Examples includes Japanese Zeroes and a B-52 Bomber sitting in just several feet of water. The ground is still covered with craters created by the artillery campaigns that lasted 30 days to "prep" the island for the Allied invasion. The Japanese occupied the island from 1914 to 1944, heavily influencing the culture. Other well known villages are Nallu, Enejet, Lukonor, Tokewa, and Wau, Mili. Nallu, Enejet and Lukonwor are only accessible from Mili by land during lowtide. Only Mili, Mili and Enejet, Mili have runways for small planes.

The population of the islands in the atoll is 1032 as of 1999.