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January 06, 2012

Nuclear Diaspora: Bikini and Enewetak

*Note: Diaspora definition: "A diaspora (from Greek διασπορά, "scattering, dispersion") is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands". (Wikipedia)



These photos are from the Nuclear Diaspora: Bikini and Enewetak collection at: http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/kiste/

This is one of many interesting digital and digitized collections of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library:
http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/research/digicoll.html


Canoe on beach and SAR plane in lagoon in background

Abner's canoe
Jorri's canoe under construction