Marshall Islands (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Marshall Islands

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WHOI researchers reconstructed 3,000 years of storm history on Jaluit Atoll in the southern Marshall Islands. This region is the birthplace of tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific--the world's most active tropical cyclone zone.

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(Map by Natalie Renier, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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