Houk (island)
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Carolines | |
| Geographical location | 6 ° 41 ′ 18 ″ N , 149 ° 18 ′ 6 ″ E | |
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| length | 3 km | |
| width | 1.2 km | |
| surface | 2.805 km² | |
| Residents | 451 (2000) 161 inhabitants / km² |
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Houk (other name: Pulusuk ) is a small coral island in the Caroline Islands archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean . Politically, it belongs to the state of Chuuk of the Federated States of Micronesia .
geography
Houk is comparatively isolated in the southwest of the state, around 245 km southwest of the Chuuk Atoll ; the closest landmass is Puluwat , 73 km north of Houk. The island lies on the coral fringe in the extreme southeast of the Manila Reef , a largely submerged, around 330 km² large atoll complex. Houk itself is 3 km long, up to 1.2 km wide and has an area of about 2.8 km². The island has a dense vegetation and has a small brackish water - Lagoon in the north.
administration
The island belongs to the statistical island region Oksoritod , sub-region Pattiw , and forms a separate municipality with a population of 451 in the year 2000. The inhabitants speak Puluwatesian , a Micronesian language related to Chuukesian .
Web links
- Houk on oceandots.com ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- A photo by Houk on Panoramio
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chuuk State Census Report, 2000 (PDF; English; 3.6 MB)
