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Ifalik

Pacific atoll in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia

Ifalik

Pacific atoll in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia

FieldValue
nameIfalik
Ifaliug
image_nameIfalik ISS021.png
image_captionNASA picture of Ifalik Atoll
image_size250px
map_imageYap.png
locationNorth Pacific
coordinates
archipelagoCaroline
total_islands4
area_km21.47
elevation_m2
population561
population_as_of2000
countryFederated States of Micronesia
ethnic_groupsMicronesian

Ifaliug Ifalik, also spelled Ifaluk (), is a coral atoll of four islands in the central Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district in Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia. Ifalik is located approximately 40 km east of Woleai and 700 km southeast of the island of Yap. The population of Ifalik was 561 in 2000, living on 1.5 km2. The primary islets of Ifalik are called Ella, Elangelap, Rawaii, and Flalap, which is the atoll's main island.

Geography

|Pacific Ocean

Old Map of Ifalik

The total land area of Ifalik is only 1.47 km2, but it encloses a 20 m deep lagoon of 2.43 km2. The total area is about six square kilometers.

History

Ifalik is known as a “warrior island”. Prior to European contact, its warriors invaded the outer islands in Yap as well as some of the outer islands in Chuuk. Atolls under the attack included, Lamotrek, Faraulep, Woleai, Elato, Satawal, Ulithi, and Poluwat (outer islet of Chuuk).

As with all of the Caroline Islands, sovereignty passed to the Empire of Germany in 1899. The island came under the control of the Empire of Japan after World War I, and was subsequently administered under the South Seas Mandate. Following World War II, the island came under the control of the United States of America and was administered as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947, and became part of the Federated States of Micronesia from 1979…

Notes

References

  • Columbia Gazetteer of the World. Vol. 1, p. 900

References

  1. (31 March 2019). "Woleaian-English Dictionary". Humanities Open Books program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
  2. "Census & Surveys: 2000: Yap".
  3. [http://www.pacificweb.org/DOCS/fsm/Yap2000Census/2000%20Yap%20Census%20Report_Final.pdf Pacificweb]
  4. Otis W. Freeman, ed., Geography of the Pacific, Wiley 1953
  5. [ftp://rock.geosociety.org/pub/reposit/2001/2001075.pdf Geosociety]{{dead link. (May 2025)
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