Likiep

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Likiep
NASA image by Likiep
NASA image by Likiep
Waters Pacific Ocean
archipelago Marshall Islands
Geographical location 9 ° 54 '  N , 169 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 9 ° 54 '  N , 169 ° 8'  E
Likiep (Marshall Islands)
Likiep
Number of islands 65
Main island Likiep
Land area 10.28 km²
Lagoon area 424 km²
Residents 401 (2011)
Template: Infobox Atoll / Maintenance / HoeheFehlt

Likiep (German outdated: Graf Heyden Islands ) is an atoll of the Ratak chain of the Marshall Islands . The atoll has a land area of ​​10.26 km², which encloses a lagoon of 424 km². Likiep is located 55 km northwest of the Wotje -Atoll. The highest point of the atoll is 10 m above sea level.

history

Capelles tomb

The history of the atoll is very closely linked to German colonization efforts in the Pacific region. So has been on Likiep since the end of the 19th century. Copra produced for export. The copra production was largely promoted by two European families. On the one hand the German family Capelle and on the other hand the Portuguese deBrum . 15 houses and a German Catholic church, which were built on the atoll between 1880 and 1937, bear witness to the great influence of Europeans, especially in architectural terms. The historic buildings are on the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites . They symbolize the socio-economic change in Polynesian society, which is based on barter and traditional religion , towards the capitalist-Christian society of the 19th and 20th centuries. Century.

Copra production, tourism and the worldwide export of rare edible fish such as yellowfin tuna and typical coral reef fish are of economic importance today . The atoll is still partly owned by the descendants of Georg Eduard Adolph Capelle and his wife Limenwa (Sophie von Ebon ).

There is an airfield on the island ( IATA code: LIK).

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Schnee (ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920. (3 volumes)
  2. ↑ Hermann Mückler : The Marshall Islands and Nauru in German colonial times. South Sea islanders, traders and colonial officials in old photographs. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7329-0285-9 , p. 43

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