Pingelap
Pingelap is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, part of Pohnpei State of the Federated States of Micronesia, consisting of three islands: Pingelap Island, Sukoru and Daekae, linked by a reef system and surrounding a central lagoon, although only Pingelap Island is inhabited. The entire system has a land area of 1.8 km² (455 acres) at high-tide, and is less than at its widest point. The atoll has its own language, Pingelapese, spoken by most of the atoll's 250 residents.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Pingelap
- Settlement.native_name
- Pingelap Atoll
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- A satellite image of the Pingelap atoll at low-tide. The pale strip in the center is the airstrip.
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- Atoll
- Settlement.area_land_km2
- 1.8
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- 4
- Settlement.population_total
- 250
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- Country
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- Micronesia
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- State
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- Pohnpei
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Pingelap is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, part of Pohnpei State of the Federated States of Micronesia, consisting of three islands: Pingelap Island, Sukoru and Daekae, linked by a reef system and surrounding a central lagoon, although only Pingelap Island is inhabited. The entire system has a land area of 1.8 km² (455 acres) at high-tide, and is less than at its widest point. The atoll has its own language, Pingelapese, spoken by most of the atoll's 250 residents.
==History== thumb|250px|right|A map of the Pohnpei region. Pingelap is at the eastern edge of the map. The first European observer of the islands was Captain Thomas Musgrave in the ship . Captain MacAskill in revisited them in 1809. Errors in measurement of their location resulted in the islands being separately named on charts in the 19th century as the Musgrave Islands and the MacAskill islands, within the Caroline archipelago.
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