Scouting in the Marshall Islands York. Scouting in the Marshall Islands Scouting in the Marshall Islands is in a state of development and growth. Scouting has existed in the islands since at least the 1970s, and may have been developed as early as the 1950s. Like the other former Trust Territories of the Pacific, Boy Scouting in the Marshall Islands is developing as part of the Aloha Council Pacific Basin District. Its Order of the Arrow lodge is Na Mokupuni O Lawelawe Lodge #567. For Girl Scouts, there are Girl Scouts of the USA Overseas in Ebeye, Kwajalein, and Majuro, served by USAGSO headquarters in
History of the Marshall Islands to abandon their islands in decades, not centuries, as previously thought". A report in mid 2017 by Stanford University, some 70 years after 23 atomic bombs were detonated on Bikini Atoll, indicates abundant fish and plant life in the coral reefs. That area of the islands was still not habitable by humans, however, due to contamination by radioactivity. A 2012 report by the United Nations had indicated that the contamination was "near-irreversible". History of the Marshall Islands Micronesians settled the Marshall Islands in the 2nd millennium BC, but there are no historical or oral records of that period. Over time,