[oska]

> Although he didn’t know it, Alvarenga had washed ashore on Tile Islet, a small island that is part of the Ebon Atoll, on the southern tip of the 1,156 islands that make up the Republic of the Marshall Islands, one of the most remote spots on Earth.

As it took me a little while to find Tile Islet, here's the link on google maps for others' convenience:

https://www.google.com.au/maps/@4.6210188,168.7678056,15z

[madaxe_again]

He got very lucky - as not only was bumping into the Marshalls remarkable, but he didn't end up on Eniwetok/Enewetak or one of the other nuked atolls, where only radiation sickness would have greeted him.

[Retric]

It's been long enough that the most radioactive stuff is gone, the US military also did extensive cleanup 30 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enewetak_Atoll#/media/File:Run...

"The final cost of the cleanup project was $239 million."