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Majuro city overview
Majuro is a city in Marshall Islands shaped by its region, population, local economy, landmarks, climate and civic history. This overview summarizes the city itself: where it sits, what defines it, which places anchor its identity and why it matters within the wider country.
City facts
Known forMajuro, Capital city in Marshall Islands, Majuro planning base 3, Majuro planning base 4
RegionMarshall IslandsMarshall Islands
Time zonePacific/Majurolocal time
Founded1869historical origin
City history
The atoll has been inhabited for at least 2,000 years by Austronesian peoples, including the ancestors of modern-day Marshallese residents.
Archaeological excavations of um earth ovens at the Laura village on Majuro suggest habitation around the 1st century AD with a radiocarbon dating range of 93 BC to 127 AD.
Protestant missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions established a church and school on atoll in 1869.
By 1876, agents of the firms Capelle & Co., Hernsheim & Co., and Thomas Farrell were engaged in the copra trade on Majuro.
After buying out Thomas Farrell's interests in 1877, New Zealand-based copra firm Henderson & Macfarlane had its regional headquarters on Majuro.
In 1883, Cyprian Bridge of the passing British warship HMS Espiegle mediated a peace treaty.
The fighting never resumed, but when HMS Dart passed Majuro in 1884, Rimi was trying to persuade the iroij of Aur Atoll to join him in an attack on Jebrik.
The German Empire claimed Majuro Atoll as part of the German Protectorate of the Marshall Islands in 1885.
As with the rest of the Marshalls, Majuro was captured by the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1914 during World War I and mandated to the Empire of Japan by the League of Nations in.
On January 30, 1944, United States Armed Forces invaded, but found that Japanese forces had evacuated their fortifications to Kwajalein and Enewetak about a year earlier.
After the Marshall Islands broke away from the Federated States of Micronesia in 1978 to form the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Majuro became the new country's capital and meeting place of the Nitijeļā.
It supplanted Jaluit Atoll as the administrative center of the Marshall Islands, a status that it retains after the independence of the Marshall Islands in 1986 under a Compact of Free Association.
The island then became a part of the Japanese mandated territory of the South Seas Mandate; although the Japanese had established a government in the Mandate, local affairs were mostly left in the hands.
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Majuro
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Capital city in Marshall Islands
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Majuro planning base 3
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Majuro planning base 4
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Majuro planning base 5
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Majuro planning base 6
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Stay overview
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Hotels & areas
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Rental cars
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Best time to visit
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Transport notes
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Crowds
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