Lamolior
Lamolior | ||
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False color - satellite image , Lamolior is below (above is Elato ) |
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Waters | Pacific | |
archipelago | Carolines | |
Geographical location | 7 ° 24 ' N , 146 ° 8' E | |
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Number of islands | 2 | |
Main island | Toas Island | |
length | 3 km | |
width | 1.5 km | |
Land area | 17 ha | |
total area | 3 km² | |
Residents | uninhabited | |
Spanish nautical chart from 1886: Elato / Lamolior and Lamotrek |
Lamolior is an uninhabited atoll in the central Pacific Ocean . Geographically, it belongs to the Carolines Archipelago , politically it belongs to the state of Yap of the Federated States of Micronesia . Administratively, it forms with the larger and more populated neighbor Toll Elato the same community ( municipality ) Elato.
geography
Lamolior is located in the east of the state of Yap, 12 km southwest of the Lamotrek atoll and around 40 km southeast of Olimarao . It is over 900 km away from the Yap Islands in the west of the state. It is connected to the neighboring atoll Elato via a 1.5 km long and 20 m below water surface coral bank. Lamolior itself has a length of 3 km, a width of up to 1.5 km and an area of about 3 km². On the south-eastern fringing reef of the atoll are two densely overgrown islands, Toas (9.4 ha area) and Ulor (7.1 ha), which are connected to a double island by a sandbank .
Web links
- Lamolior on Oceandots ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Sailing Directions (enroute), Pub. 126, Pacific Ocean (PDF; 5.1 MB) (Accessed August 13, 2010)