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Water Chuuk Lagoon
"A warm lagoon where coral grows over the deck guns of a sunken Japanese fleet."
City Eten Island
"An entire island turned into a Japanese airfield, its runway now a straight line of jungle."
Water Kapingamarangi Atoll
"A Polynesian island lost inside Micronesia, its language closer to Samoan than to its neighbours'."
City Lelu Ruins
"Basalt walls of an ancient island kingdom rise from the jungle, royal tombs still inside."
City Nan Madol
"A ghost city of black basalt rising from a lagoon, its canals silent for centuries."
Water Pingelap Atoll
"A one-airstrip atoll of palms and white sand, famous to science, barely charted by tourism."
Wilderness Pohnpei Highlands
"Waterfalls spilling from cloud forest drenched by three hundred inches of rain each year."
Water Sapwuahfik Atoll
"Chants in a language silenced in 1837 are still sung here, learned sound by sound."
Mountain Sokehs Rock
"A magician's stone plugged a geyser here, says legend; the climb is bare basalt and rope."
City Tonowas
"Jungle swallows the headquarters of Japan's Fourth Fleet: tunnels, guns and a bomb-proof command bunker."
City Yap
"Stone money too heavy to move, so ownership transfers by word alone on this jungle island."
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Its carved deities travelled the world. Their island stayed little visited.
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The chart is memory. The compass is a sky full of stars.
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Hundreds of warships once filled the water between these quiet villages.
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