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Lamotrek

Islands in Federated States of Micronesia

Field	Value
name	Lamotrek
Lamwocheg
image_name	Lamotrek Landsat.jpg
image_caption	NASA picture with the three islands in red
image_size	250px
map_image	Yap.png
location	North Pacific
coordinates
archipelago	Caroline
total_islands	3
area_km2	0.982
elevation_m	2
population	373
population_as_of	2000
country	Federated States of Micronesia
ethnic_groups	Micronesian

Lamwocheg |Pacific Ocean

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 km east of Elato. The population of Lamotrek was 373 in 2000, living on almost 1 km2.

Name

The name of the island possibly goes back to Proto-Chuukic *lamʷo-li-ragi "lagoon of the west".

Geography

The atoll is 11.5 km long northeast-southeast, and up to 6.5 km wide. Its total land area is only 0.982 km2, but it encloses a lagoon of 32 km2.

Among the individual islets are the following:

Falaite (northwest)
Pugue (northeast)
Lamotrek (southeast)

History

Before European rule, Lamotrek was invaded by Ifalik during Mweoiush's reign, with aid from the Mailiyas.

In January 1849 an earthquake occurred causing a flood to submerge the island with the exception of some trees. People climb trees to survive. The water however swept away people in certain cases who climb the trees causing them to die. Forty-one survivors came to the Marianas to permanently settle there in April of that year.

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.

References

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

References

(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.
[http://www.pacificweb.org/DOCS/fsm/Yap2000Census/2000%20Yap%20Census%20Report_Final.pdf Yap State Census Report, 2000] ( PDF)
(2003). "Proto-Micronesian Reconstructions: 2". Oceanic Linguistics.
"Oceandots".
Driver, Marjorie. (1996). "Carolinians in the Mariana Islands in the 1800s: selected documents from the holdings of the Spanish Documents Collection at the Micronesian Area Research Center: English-Spanish Edition (English-Spanish ed.)". Micronesian Area Research Center.

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