Oroluk (island)
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Oroluk atoll | |
| Geographical location | 7 ° 37 '13 " N , 155 ° 9' 32" E | |
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| length | 523 m | |
| width | 343 m | |
| surface | 13 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 18 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Oroluk ( Oroluk Island ) is the name of the only island in the Oroluk Atoll of the same name in the northwest of the Federated States of Micronesia , part of Pohnpei .
The island, which has an oval plan and a land area of 13 hectares , was discovered by the French captain P. Saliz in 1826 and was originally called Ile de gordelaise . Later the island was sometimes called San Augustin or St. Augustine Island .
On the now uninhabited island there is only an automatic weather station .
Sources & web links
- Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume II, p. 684 [1]
- Weather station (with picture) [2]
photos
NASA image of the atoll,
with the island to the northwest
Automatic weather station on Oroluk Island
