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Marshall Islands

A Marshallese stick chart was studied on land and left at home: navigators memorised it. Curved sticks showed how islands bend the swells, and small shells marked the islands.

Five things to know about the Marshall Islands

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's the Marshall Islands, in the central Pacific, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. See the Marshall Islands on a map.
  2. It is named after a British sea captain who sailed through in 1788, and its capital is Majuro.
  3. The bikini swimsuit was named in 1946 after one of its atolls.
  4. It is made up of 29 coral atolls and 5 islands, with land that averages about two metres above the sea.
  5. Its sailors navigated with charts made of sticks and shells that mapped the ocean's swells.

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