Namorik Atoll Scale Comparisons

In light of our recent site visits in the Marshall Islands, we thought it would be interesting to share these comparative diagrams that we did when we first began working there with Living Islands, in order to begin understanding a place we hadn't yet been, by referencing it to places we already knew well. Those diagrams have since been supplemented by countless other efforts, and especially with our visit this week. Questions we were asking at the time: How does one's worldview change depending on the geography of their youth? For the average American, living in cities that are 95% land / 5% water, how does one even fathom what it's like to experience the opposite, of 95% water / 5% land? And how does that shifting ratio affect one's priorities, not only in terms of high level thinking, but on day-to-day decisions? Shown here is Namorik, one of the most remote atolls on the Ralik Chain, with a population under 1000, a land area of 2.8 square km (1.1 square miles), enclosing an 8.4 square km (3.2 square miles) lagoon, and surrounded by thousands of miles of open ocean.