Jaluit Atoll
After their relocation to Kili, the Bikini residents continued to suffer from inadequate food supplies. Kili is a small island without a lagoon, and most of the year it is exposed to waves that make fishing and putting canoes out difficult. Starvation ensued. In 1949, the Trust Territory administration donated a ship for transporting copra between Kili and Jaluit Atoll, but the ship was wrecked in heavy surf while delivering copra and other fruit.