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Mary Lanwi
Mary Heine Lanwi was an educator, activist, and promotor of traditional handicrafts in the Marshall Islands. A female pioneer on the islands, she has been described as "perhaps the first Marshallese woman to begin employment outside the home." In 1974, she was the only woman elected to serve as a delegate to the Micronesian Constitutional Convention. Early life and education Mary Heine was born February 22, 1921, on Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Her mother, Grace, was from Ebon Atoll, while her father, Claude Heine, was the son of Australian-born missionary Carl Heine and his Marshallese wife Arbella from Namdrik Atoll. She had two sisters and two brothers, including the politician Dwight Heine. After beginning her education at her parents' day school, she was sent to the Jabwor Training School, a missionary-run all-girls school on her atoll. Then, in 1937, she moved with her family to Kosrae, an island in what is now the Federated States of Micronesia, where she studied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaluit Atoll
Jaluit Atoll ( Marshallese: , , or , ) is a large coral atoll of 91 islands in the Pacific Ocean and forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is , and it encloses a lagoon with an area of . Most of the land area is on the largest islet ( motu) of Jaluit (10.4 km2). Jaluit is approximately southwest of Majuro. Jaluit Atoll is a designated conservation area and Ramsar Wetland. In 2021 the population of the islands of Jaluit Atoll was 1,409. It was the former administrative seat of the Marshall Islands. History The British merchant vessel '' Rolla'' sighted Jaluit in 1803. She had transported convicts from Britain to New South Wales and was on her way to China to find a cargo to take back to Britain. In 1885, the German Empire annexed Jaluit Atoll and the other Marshall Islands as protectorate. From 1888 to 1906 the islands were administered by the Jaluit Company on behalf of Germany’s colonial governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
