Rumung

Rumung
Satellite image of the Yap Islands (Rumung in the picture above.)
Waters	Pacific Ocean
Archipelago	Yap Islands
Geographical location	9 ° 37 '12 "  N , 138 ° 9' 18"  E Coordinates: 9 ° 37 '12 "  N , 138 ° 9' 18"  E
length	3.1 km
width	1.15 km
surface	4.3 km²
Highest elevation	Qadirgel 84  m
Residents	126 (2000) 29 inhabitants / km²
main place	Fal
Map of the Yap Islands, with Rumung in the north

Rumung is the northernmost island of the Yap Islands , a small group of islands in the western Pacific . This is approximately 1300 km from New Guinea and 870 km from Guam .

The forested, quite flat and about 3 km long and maximally 1.15 km wide island has the main town Gaqnaqun on its north coast ; other small settlements can be found mainly on the northeast coast.

Rumung is just under 200 m off the north coast of Maap Island , separated by the Yinbinaew inlet, which is 140 meters wide and 700 meters long .

At the 2000 census there were 126 people living on the island in 26 households. In 1994 there were still 139 inhabitants in 27 households.

Rumung forms the municipality of the same name Rumung, with the following villages:

• Buluuol (Bulwol) (northwest)
• Mechiol (Meechoqol) (southwest)
• Gaanaun (Gaqnaqun) (northeast)
• Riy (east)
• Fal (Faal) east
• Wenfara (Weenfaraq) (southeast)
• Eng (Qeng) (abandoned village in the center)

Only the southernmost, abandoned village of Amin (Qamin) already belongs to the municipality of Maap , which is located on the neighboring island of the same name.

The largest places are Riy and Fal, which are neighboring on the east coast. They were the main centers of the traditional alliances into which Rumung was divided. Riy was the capital of the Northern Alliance and Fal of the Southern Alliance. Fal is traditionally the main town for the entire island, although Riy and Fal fought for supremacy here.

literature

• Erich Kaiser: Contributions to the petrography and geology of the German South Sea Islands. In: Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Geological State Institute and Mining Academy in Berlin for the year 1903. Volume XXIV, Berlin 1907, pp. 93–121. pdf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PDF at www.pacificweb.org
2. ↑ Sherwood G. Lingenfelter : Yap, political leadership and culture change in an island society, 1975, p. 79
3. ↑ Ira Bashkow: The dynamics of rapport in a colonial situation: David Schneider's field work on the Islands of Yap. In: Colonial Situations. Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge, pp. 170–242