Articles in Micronesia ( 86 )

86 Articles of interest in Micronesia

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  • Mokil Atoll

    Mwoakilloa (or Mokil previously named Wellington Island or Duperrey Island) is an inhabited atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. Geographically, it belongs to the Caroline Islands and is a district of the outlying islands of Pohnpei of the Federated …

  • Lamotrek

    Lamotrek is a coral atoll of three islands in the central Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district in Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia. The atoll is located approximately 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) east of E…

  • Yap Trench

    The Yap Trench is an oceanic trench near Yap Island in the western Pacific Ocean. The trench forms the part of the Pacific Ring of Fire between the Palau Islands and the Mariana Trench.

  • Tofol

    Tofol village in Lelu Town municipality is the capital of the state of Kosrae in Micronesia, according to the provisions of the Kosrae State Code, Title 2, Chap.

  • Satawan

    Satawan Atoll is an atoll located about 250 kilometres (160 mi) southeast of Chuuk proper. Geographically it is part of the Nomoi or Mortlock Islands in the Carolines and administratively it is part of Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micrones…

  • Madolenihmw

    Madolenihmw is one of the administrative divisions of the Micronesian island of Pohnpei. It is located in the central east of the island, to the east of Mount Nahna Laud and south of Mount Kapwuriso.

  • Fefan

    Fefan is the third largest inhabited island of the Truk Lagoon in the Federated States of Micronesia. It has an area of 13.2 km² and a population of about 3,000 (last census: 1980).

  • Faraulep

    Faraulep Atoll is a coral atoll of three islands in the central Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district in Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia. Its total land area is only 0.422 square kilometres (0.163 sq…

  • Pikelot

    Pikelot Island is one of the outer islands of the State of Yap, part of the Federated States of Micronesia. It is a low coral islet, with a wet, tropical climate.

  • Elato

    Elato is a coral atoll of three islands in the central Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district in Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia. It is located approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of Lamotrek.

  • Eauripik

    Eauripik Island is a coral atoll of three islands in the western Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district in Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia. Its total land area is only 23.6 hectares 0.236 square kilom…

  • Utwe

    Utwe (or Utwa) is the second-largest municipality in the Micronesian state of Kosrae, the largest being Tafunsak.

  • Losap

    Losap is an atoll located in the Eastern Islands or Upper Mortlock Islands group in the state of Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia.

  • 2010 Papua New Guinea bus crash

    The 2010 Papua New Guinea bus crash was a collision of two buses in Papua New Guinea on 14 January 2010. At least 40 people were killed after a Route 100 (Highway) Coaster bus and a Route 3 public motor vehicle (PMV, a refitted truck used for public…

  • Xavier High School, Micronesia

    Xavier High School is a Jesuit coeducational high school located on the island of Weno in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. It was established in 1952. It was the first high school in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Bishop Thomas Fe…

  • Tonowas

    Tonowas, also known by its Spanish name of Dublon, is an island in the Chuuk (formerly Truk) lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia. It has an area of 8.8 km² and the population was 3,200 at the time of the last census (1980). A narrow single-lane t…

  • Tafunsak

    Tafunsak (formerly transliterated as Tahfuhnsahk) is the largest settlement on the island of Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia. Its population was 2,457 at the 2000 census. This includes Walung, which had been incorporated into the munici…

  • Sokehs Island

    Sokehs Peninsula is a small Peninsula close to the north coast of Pohnpei Island in the Federated States of Micronesia. It is connected to the main island by causeway, and a field of mangroves. Sokehs was an island until recent years, when the mangr…

  • Oroluk Island

    Oroluk Island is one of the islets of Oroluk Atoll, part of the State of Pohnpei (Federated States of Micronesia). Oroluk is currently uninhabited and is 0.13 km² in size. It was formerly inhabited.

  • Faichuk

    Faichuk (also Faichuuk, Tol, or the Western Islands) are a group of four islands separated from one another by narrow canals in the western part of Truk Lagoon, Chuuk, Micronesia.