As of 2018, the Islands had a population of 75,684 people.
#Marshall islands atoll series
The administrative offices are situated in the far east of the Majuro atoll, in Delap-Uliga-Djarrit town, which is also the main population center and one of the most densely populated urban areas of the Pacific Islands. In the Central Pacific, a series of 29 atolls and five islands compose the independent republic of the Marshall Islands.The Marshall Islands used to be under United States trusteeship but now exists as a freely associated state with the U.S. Located in the southern part of Ratak chain is the large Majuro atoll where, the Majuro city is the national capital, the largest and the most populous city of Marshall Islands. These atolls and islands form two parallel chains referred to as the Ratak (Sunrise) chain and Ralik (Sunset) chain that are both oriented in a northwest-southeast direction. Covering a total land area of only 180 sq.km, Marshall Islands consist of 29 low-lying coral atolls comprising 1,156 individual islands and islets scattered over 1,900,000 sq.km area in the central Pacific Ocean. Marshall Islands is a sovereign Micronesian island nation and an associated state of the United States. These municipalities/electoral districts are: Ailinglaplap, Ailuk, Arno, Aur, Ebon, Enewetak, Jabat, Jaluit, Kii, Kwajalein, Lae, Lib, Likiep, Majuro, Maloelap, Mejit, Mili, Namdrik, Namu, Rongelap, Ujae, Utirik, Wotho and Wotje. Local governments were held to be subject to the authority of the national government.ĭecision: The court denies the plaintiff’s motion, it was held that the constitutional provisions relied upon do not limit the legislature’s authority to adopt this legislation.Marshall Islands (officially, the Republic of the Marshall Islands) is divided into 24 municipalities/electoral districts which correspond to the inhabited islands/atolls. Therefore the local government is granted a broad power through the sections and the Constitution deals with not only the territorial jurisdiction of a local government but also the limits of its political authority. The language was said to merely describe the territorial aspect of the local government’s jurisdiction.įurthermore Article XI s2(1) states that ‘ a local government may make ordinances for the area in respect of which it has jurisdiction, provided that such ordinances are not inconsistent with any Act…’ It is the second-westernmost atoll of the Ralik Chain and is. Its land area totals less than 5.85 square kilometres (2.26 sq mi), not higher than 5 metres and surrounding a deep central lagoon, 80 kilometres (50 mi) in circumference. Further ‘no Act should be allowed to encroach upon that constitutionally reserved jurisdiction.’ĭuring the debate about the definition of jurisdiction the Court held that context is helpful in determining meaning and when considering the words of the Article the Court held that the language did not imply the grant of power and authority to be exercised by the local government. Enewetak is a large coral atoll of 40 islands in the Pacific Ocean and with its 850 people forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands.
The plaintiff argued that Article IX s1(3) gives authority to the local government to exercise broad powers over the Majuro lagoon and consequently the Authority may not exercise exclusive power over the lagoon. There are no significant minority groups in the Marshall Islands though there are residents from other Pacific Island states, the United States, Taiwan. 74 of the population resides on Majuro and Kwajalein. The nation consists of 24 coral atolls, with a total of 1,156 individual islands and islets.
#Marshall islands atoll free
The Act s 102(31) defines ‘fishery waters’ as the exclusive economic zone, the territorial sea and internal waters, including lagoons, as described in the Marine Zones (Declaration) Act 1984, and any other waters within the jurisdiction of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.’ The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has been a sovereign nation since 1986 with a Compact of Free Association (COFA) with the United States of America. The Act s119(1) provides ‘unless otherwise provided in this Title, the Authority shall have the exclusive powers and functions to: conserve, manage and sustainably develop all resources in the Fishery Waters…’
The Act includes the Majuro Atoll Lagoon and provides exclusive powers and functions over these fishery waters to the Authority.Īrticle IX s1(3) Constitution provides ‘the whole of the land and sea areas to which any system of local government extends shall lie within the jurisdiction of a local government…’ The local Majuro Atoll government argues that a portion of the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Act 1997 is unconstitutional insofar as it relates to constitutional provisions of Article IX.
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