Pulap

Pulap
	Landsat - False color image of Pulap
Waters	Pacific
archipelago	Carolines
Geographical location	7 ° 35 ' N , 149 ° 25' E Coordinates: 7 ° 35 ' N , 149 ° 25' E
Number of islands	3
Main island	Pulap
length	13 km
width	6 km
Land area	99.2 ha
Lagoon area	31.321 km²
total area	43 km²
Residents	1270 (2000)
	Map of Chuuk, the Pulap Atoll to the west

Pulap is an inhabited atoll in the central Pacific Ocean . Geographically it belongs to the Carolines Archipelago , politically to the state of Chuuk of the Federated States of Micronesia .

geography

Pulap is located 29 km north of the neighboring atoll Puluwat and 220 km west of Chuuk Atoll in the center of the state. The atoll has a length of 13 km in north-south direction, a maximum width of 6 km in east-west direction and a total area of 43 km². Large parts of the fringing reef are up to 10 m deep under the water surface, so that the atoll character is only weakly pronounced from the sea. The area of the largely open and up to 35 m deep lagoon is 31.3 km², while the total land area is only 0.99 km². The coral fringe is surrounded by three densely vegetated islands, Pulap in the north, the double island Tamatam in the south and the approximately 5.6 hectare island Fanadik in the west of the atoll.

Population and administration

Pulap consists of the two communities ( municipalities ) Pollap in the north with 905 inhabitants and Tamatam in the south with 365 inhabitants (2000). Together with the municipalities of Houk and Poluwat , it forms the statistical region of Pattiw of the island region of Oksoritod . The population speaks Puluwatesian , a Micronesian language related to Chuukesian .

Web links

Pulap on Oceandots ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Atoll Area, Depth and Rainfall (2001) table from the Geological Society of America (accessed August 17, 2010)
^ Otis W. Freeman, Geography of the Pacific , Wiley Verlag, 1953
↑ Reptiles of Satawan Atoll and the Mortlock Islands, Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia (English; PDF) (accessed November 22, 2013)
^ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Sailing Directions (enroute), Pub. 126, Pacific Ocean (PDF; 4.84 MB) (Accessed August 17, 2010)
↑ Chuuk State Census Report, 2000 (English; PDF; 3.42 MB) (accessed August 17, 2010)

[geosoc-1] Atoll Area, Depth and Rainfall (2001) table from the Geological Society of America (accessed August 17, 2010)

[2] Otis W. Freeman, Geography of the Pacific , Wiley Verlag, 1953

[3] Reptiles of Satawan Atoll and the Mortlock Islands, Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia (English; PDF) (accessed November 22, 2013)

[4] National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Sailing Directions (enroute), Pub. 126, Pacific Ocean (PDF; 4.84 MB) (Accessed August 17, 2010)

[5] Chuuk State Census Report, 2000 (English; PDF; 3.42 MB) (accessed August 17, 2010)