The Remote Pacific Atoll That Was Once a Paradise

Where on Earth?
Enewetak Atoll, South Pacific
GPS Coordinates: 11°30′N 162°20′E

A tiny, perfect, dazzling ring of coral surrounded by thousands of miles of open ocean, it’s hard to imagine a more beautiful place on Earth than Enewetak Atoll. For millions of years, waves crashed endlessly over its pristine white sand as winged dinosaurs and then shorebirds alighted on this remote speck of land. Its waters teemed with fish and the island was colonised by…