Senyavin Islands

Senyavin Islands
Map of the Senjawin Islands
Waters	Pacific Ocean
archipelago	Carolines
Geographical location	6 ° 50 ′  N , 158 ° 8 ′  E Coordinates: 6 ° 50 ′  N , 158 ° 8 ′  E
Main island	Pohnpei
Total land area	337.16 km²
Residents	32,395 (2000)

The Senjawin Islands are a group of islands in the western Pacific Ocean in the Caroline Islands .

geography

The Senjawin Islands , also known as the Pohnpei archipelago , today part of the Federated States of Micronesia , are located in the east of the Carolines archipelago . They consist of the numerous islets around the main island of Pohnpei and two small atolls ( Ant and Pakin ) a little further to the west of it .

history

Probably the first European to reach the Pohnpei archipelago was the Portuguese navigator and explorer Pedro Fernández de Quirós . More than 200 years later, the Russian circumnavigator Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke reached the archipelago in 1828 and named it after the Russian admiral Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Senjawin . Lütke never set foot on the islands, but estimated the population at 2000 on the basis of sighted canoes.

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1. ↑ Discovery of the Senjawin Islands by de Quirós ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.) 
2. ↑ "Discovery" of the Senjawin Islands by Lütke ( memento of the original from April 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)