Ant (atoll)

Ant
Map of the Senjawin Islands with Ant in the southwest
Waters	Pacific Ocean
archipelago	Carolines
Geographical location	6 ° 47 '  N , 157 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 6 ° 47 '  N , 157 ° 58'  E
Number of islands	13
Main island	Nikelap Aru
length	11 km
width	7.6 km
Land area	1.86 km²
Lagoon area	74.33 km²
total area	99 km²
Residents	uninhabited
NASA satellite image (Geocover 2000)

Ant , also called Ahnd or And , is a small atoll in the Pacific Ocean about 10 km southwest of the western reef rim of the Micronesian island of Pohnpei . Together with Pohnpei and the Pakin Atoll to the north, Ant forms the group of Senjawin Islands .

geography

The almost rectangular atoll is 11 km long and up to 9 km wide. 13 small, but mostly overgrown motus can be found on the narrow southern and eastern fringing reef as well as in a single place in the northwest of the atoll ( Wolauna Island ). There is a passage to the deep lagoon in the southeast ( Tauenai Channel ).

The islets of Nikalap Aru in the southeast (46.6 hectares), Pamuk in the southwest (60.1 hectares) and Patya in the east (18.6 hectares), which together make up two-thirds of the island, belong to the somewhat "larger" land masses of the Ant Atoll Unite the land area of ​​the atoll. The uninhabited atoll is privately owned.

The total area of ​​the atoll is 99 km². The lagoon is up to 67 meters deep.

In the southeast of the atoll, the Tauenai Passage, 90 meters wide and 15.2 m deep at the shallowest point, leads into the lagoon.

The atoll is uninhabited. In 1986 a family was reported who lived on the main island of Nikelap Aru and produced copra for sale.

administration

The atoll is traditionally part of the municipality of Kiti, located in the southwest of the island of Pohnpei.

Web links

• Oceandots (with picture) ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Edwin Horace Bryan: Guide to place names in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: (the Marshall, Caroline and Mariana Islands) (Paperback). Honolulu: Pacific Scientific Information Center, 1971 (original square miles with three decimal places)
2. ↑ The Geological Society of America: Atoll Area, Depth and Rainfall  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Sailing Directions (Enroute), Pub. 126, Pacific Ocean (PDF; 5.1 MB)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Indigenous Fresh Water Management Technologies PDF 3.23 MB ( Memento from December 5, 2004 in the Internet Archive )