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Bikini Atoll

Name: Bikini Atoll
Address: MH

11.6000°N 165.4000°E · Q152225

One English word in this atlas traces back to Bikini Atoll. It sits in Marshall Islands.

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bikininoun · 1946

Well attested

The swimsuit is named for a nuclear test site.

In 1946 Louis Réard named a two-piece swimsuit after Bikini Atoll, where the United States had just begun nuclear tests. The atoll’s own name is Marshallese and has nothing to do with swimming.

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