Delap-Uliga-Djarrit

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Delap-Uliga-Djarrit is a densely populated urban area on the eastern end of Majuro Atoll. DUD is located on the three islets of Delap, Uliga, and Djarrit (from south to north). Causeways connecting the islands were constructed in 1944. The increasing population has led to extensive land reclamation on both the lagoon and the exterior coasts, with Delap and Uliga seeing the largest increase in land area (over 10%).

Traditionally the center of Majuro Atoll was an islet now called Laura, which has been inhabited for over 2,000 years. Majuro Atoll, along with the rest of the Marshall Islands, became part of the German Empire in 1885, and afterwards the Jaluit Trading Company established a trading outpost. 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 1920. 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 of traditional local leaders until the start of World War II.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}} In 1940, Japan built a seaplane base in the leeward part of the east of the atoll, located primarily on Djarrit. This choice of location was motivated by the lagoon being suitable for large ships, and the presence of patch reefs in the west, which made seaplane activities dangerous. The base was abandoned in late 1942.

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United States troops landed on the atoll on January 31, 1944 and promptly began building the major Naval Base Majuro, finished later that year.{{Cite web|url=https://marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/html/WWII/Majuro_Base.html|title=Marshall Islands -- Building the Navy's Bases -- Majuro Naval Base|website=marshall.csu.edu.au|date=9 October 2005 }}[https://pacificwrecks.com/provinces/marshall_majuro_atoll.html Majuro Atoll]pacificwrecks.com American forces set up and improved infrastructure, including a runway covering much of Delap (Majuro Airfield), and military headquarters at Uliga and Djarrit. Indigenous inhabitants of the area were forcibly relocated to the Majuro islet of Laura. By 1947 only a small administrative unit had remained, with the military having rapidly demobilized in 1945. The American administration made Majuro replace Jaluit as the capital of the Marshall Islands, due to the devastation of Jaluit during the war, and the presence of a US base on Majuro. In 1947, the Marshallese began returning to Delap and Djarrit, and the Delap runway began to be used for civil aviation. Rapid housing development took place in Delap-Uliga-Djarrit, which became the commercial and administrative center of the atoll. The population rapidly increased due to birth rates and internal migration. In 1970, the international airport was shifted west to the newly-built Amata Kabua International Airport to enable the expansion of Delap.{{cite journal |last1=Spennemann |first1=Dirk H. R. |title=Nontraditional settlement patterns and typhoon hazard on contemporary Majuro atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands |journal=Environmental Management |date=1 May 1996 |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=337–348 |doi=10.1007/BF01203842 |pmid=8661601 |bibcode=1996EnMan..20..337S |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14538480 |access-date=13 September 2023 |issn=1432-1009}} In 1986, the Marshall Islands became independent and Majuro became the national capital.

As of early 1944, about 400 people lived in small villages in Delap and Djarrit, while Uliga was not reported as being inhabited. Delap-Uliga-Djarrit was very sparsely populated in 1947,{{cite book |editor-last1=Bański |editor-first1=Jerzy |title=The Routledge Handbook of Small Towns |date=16 August 2021 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-42163-7 |pages=387, 398 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ek81EAAAQBAJ |last1=Weber |first1=Eberhard |last2=Koto |first2=Camari |chapter=Disturbing the Creation of a Spatial System: Outside Intervention and Urbanization in the Republic of the Marshall Islands |access-date=10 September 2023}} but it now has one of the highest population densities out of urban areas in the Pacific Islands. DUD's population increased from 2,387 people in 1958, to 5,829 in 1970, to 8,003 in 1973.{{cite journal |last1=Sabath |first1=Michael D. |title=Vegetation and Urbanization on Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands |journal=Pacific Science |date=October 1977 |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=325–326, 331 |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/5094141.pdf |access-date=10 September 2023 |issn=0030-8870}} In 1988, around 11,200 people lived in an area smaller than {{convert|1.5|km2|mi2|abbr=on|sigfig=1}} in DUD, while Djarrit had a population density of 17,537 people per km².{{cite book |last1=McMurray |first1=Christine |title=Diseases of globalization: socioeconomic transitions and health |date=2001 |publisher=London; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications |isbn=978-1-85383-710-4 |page=129 |url=https://archive.org/details/diseasesofglobal0000mcmu/page/128/mode/2up?q=Delap+Uliga |access-date=10 September 2023}} As of 1999, the population of DUD was 15,846 people out of Majuro's 23,676; DUD had a population density of 8506 people per km².{{cite journal |last1=Ford |first1=Murray |last2=Merrifield |first2=Mark A. |last3=Becker |first3=Janet M. |title=Inundation of a low-lying urban atoll island: Majuro, Marshall Islands |journal=Natural Hazards |date=1 April 2018 |volume=91 |issue=3 |pages=1273–1297 |doi=10.1007/s11069-018-3183-5 |bibcode=2018NatHa..91.1273F |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-018-3183-5 |access-date=31 August 2023 |issn=1573-0840}} DUD's population was 20,301 on {{convert|1.32|km2|mi2|abbr=on|sigfig=1}} as of the 2011 census.

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Delap-Uliga-Djarrit contains Majuro's port, as well as shops, banks, restaurants, and hotels.{{cite book |title=Skin Diver 1990-03: Vol 39 Iss 3 |date=March 1990 |publisher=Petersen Publishing Company |page=129 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_skin-diver_1990-03_39_3/page/128/mode/2up?q=Delap+Uliga |access-date=10 September 2023}}

In the early 1970s, "almost all" of the annual budget of Delap-Uliga-Djarrit was reported to come from alcohol taxes and fees, as only DUD, Laura, and Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands were "wet", i.e. alcohol sales were allowed.{{cite book |last1=Marshall |first1=Mac |title=Silent voices speak : women and prohibition in Truk |date=1990 |publisher=Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Pub. Co. |isbn=978-0-534-12384-0 |pages=35, 126 |url=https://archive.org/details/silentvoicesspea0000mars/page/34/mode/2up?q=Delap+Uliga |access-date=10 September 2023}}

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Alele Museum is located in Delap-Uliga-Djarrit. The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the Marshall Islands{{cite web|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/oceania/1549.htm|title=Cathedral of the Assumption|publisher=GCatholic.org|accessdate=2013-01-15|last=|first=}} and Baet-Ul-Ahad Mosque are located in town center.

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Located in Delap-Uliga-Djarrit are the College of the Marshall Islands, Assumption High School, and Uliga Elementary School.{{cite book |last1=Hess |first1=Don |last2=Hwang |first2=Dennis J. |last3=Fellenius |first3=Karl |last4=Robertson |first4=Ian |last5=Stege |first5=Mark |last6=Chutaro |first6=Ben |title=Homeowner's Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards: Republic of the Marshall Islands |date=2015 |url=https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/36094/noaa_36094_DS1.pdf |access-date=31 August 2023}} English is taught to all students.{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}}

The Marshall Islands High School is near the north end of the town.

The University of South Pacific has a presence on Delap-Uliga-Djarrit.{{cite web|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/26551.htm|accessdate=26 November 2011|title=Marshall Islands|publisher= Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs}}

Delap-Uliga-Djarrit has the Seventh Day Adventist High School and Elementary School where English is taught to all students.[http://www.ssd.org/territories/gmm/dsdas/index.html SSD] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116194335/http://www.ssd.org/territories/gmm/dsdas/index.html |date=2012-01-16 }}

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