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World Heritage in a sea of islands: Pacific 2009 Programme, pages 46-51, illustrations
This chapter explores the case of the Bikini Atoll community in the Marshall Islands and how their displacement influences their vulnerability to climate change and future considerations around mobility and immobility.
Current representations of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as an Edenic wilderness are no different. What is unusual about conceptualizations of Bikini Atoll as a pristine wilderness is that it is the site of a recent history of colonial appropriation and massive landscape transformation through nuclear-weapons testing.
This plan has been prepared for the management of the Bikini Atoll Conservation Area. It covers the protection of the cultural and natural heritage values of Bikini and compatible use of the atoll for tourism, research, cultural use and education.
Today Bikini Atoll provides a diverse coral reef community and a convincing example of partial resilience of coral biodiversity to non-chronic disturbance events.
1 kwi 2013 · Listing of Bikini Atoll on the World Heritage List in 2010 has (re)materialised and (re)imagined the cultural landscape of Bikini Atoll in a way that privileges the global story of bomb...
Reading time 13 min. MANICURED LANDSCAPE: Bikini Atoll is beautiful but eerie, say those who have been there. Palm trees are planted in rows, animals haven't yet learned to be wary of humans, and giant radioactive coconut crabs scuttle about. Photo: Dan Griffin. By Sam Scott.
