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Area IV of Twelve · The Artificial Time Warp Wheel

Kwajalein · Marshall Islands

Control: Kwajalein Atoll · Coordinates: 9.18°N, 167.31°E · From Giza: 8,473 mi (13,636 km) · Bearing 54.0°

Kwajalein · Marshall Islands — detail from the Artificial Time Warp Wheel, circle 4

Kwajalein is the largest atoll on Earth by lagoon area — a slender ring of some ninety-odd islets enclosing more than eight hundred square miles of turquoise water in the central Pacific, part of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its lagoon is deep enough, and calm enough, that it has served since the Cold War as the splashdown zone for the U.S. Army’s Reagan Test Site, tracking intercontinental missile re-entries from an atoll most of the world has never heard of.

That double life — ancient coral ring and modern ballistic proving ground, sharing the same enclosed water — sits at the far eastern reach of the Wheel’s eleven Areas, nearly a third of the way around the planet from Giza.

Registration & Source Area Four is anchored to the named atoll control from GeoNames. Its eastward longitude test from Giza returns a residual of roughly two and a half arcminutes from the nearest six-minute line, at a WGS84 distance of 8,473 miles (13,636 km), bearing 53.97°. Full working: Book I, Chapter 26.

This Area is one of the Twelve registered in Planetary Time Warp Architecture, Book I, Part Seven. See The Artificial Time Warp Wheel for the full identification table.

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