Utirik Atoll Utirik Atoll Utirik Atoll or Utrik Atoll (Marshallese: , ) is a coral atoll of 10 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is only , but it encloses a lagoon with an area of . It is located approximately east of Ujae Atoll. The population of Utirik Atoll is 409; it is one of the northernmost Marshall Islands with permanent habitation. The larger islets are: Its first recorded sighting was by the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Saavedra on board of the ship "Florida" on
Haa Alif Atoll to visit each other's islands. Marriage alliances were common. Now Minicoy is a part of India and communication is highly restricted. As an administrative division, North Thiladhunmathi Atoll was created when the huge natural Thiladhunmathi Atoll was administratively divided into northern and southern divisions in 1958. Haa Alif Atoll Haa Alif Atoll is the code name based on the letters of the Maldivian alphabet commonly used to refer to the administrative division officially known as North Thiladhunmathi Atoll (Maldivian: "Thiladhunmathi Uthuruburi") in the Maldives. It is the northernmost of the 19 administrative divisions (known as "Atolls") of the country, and