Nama (island)
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Carolines | |
| Geographical location | 6 ° 59 ′ 30 " N , 152 ° 34 ′ 30" E | |
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| length | 1.4 km | |
| width | 600 m | |
| surface | 74.8 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 6 m | |
| Residents | 995 (2000) 1330 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Nama | |
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Nama is a small coral island in the Caroline Archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean . Politically, it belongs to the state of Chuuk of the Federated States of Micronesia .
geography
Nama is located around 65 km southeast of the Chuuk Atoll in the center and 125 km northwest of the Mortlock Islands (formerly Nomoi Islands) in the southeast of the state. The closest landmass is Losap Atoll , 13 km southeast of Nama. The island, fringed by a coral reef, is 1.4 km long, up to 0.6 km wide and has an area of 0.748 km² (74.8 ha ).
Nama has an average height of three meters, and a maximum of six meters in the north.
administration
The densely populated island belongs to the statistical island region of Mortlocks and forms its own municipality with a population of 995 in 2000. The residents speak a dialect of the Chuukesian language , which is one of the Micronesian languages .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/22626/vol61n3-415-428.pdf?sequence=1 (PDF; English)
- ↑ Rebecca A. Stephenson and Hiro Kurashina: A comparison of water catchment and storage systems in two Micronesian atoll communities: Laura and Nama, ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. University of Guam Water and Energy Research Institute of the Western Pacific. Technical Report No. 50, September 1983 (PDF; English)
- ↑ Chuuk State Census Report, 2000 (PDF; English; 3.6 MB)
