Chuuk LagoonLegend The largest ship graveyard in the world. Chuuk, then called Truk, was Japan’s main forward naval base in the central Pacific, and over three days in February 1944 American carrier aircraft came for it. Operation Hailstone sank... Open it on the map · Read the story
Nan Madol, the city on the reefLegend Ninety-two artificial islets built out into the lagoon off Pohnpei, floors of coral and stone fill walled with columnar basalt, threaded by tidal canals you move through by boat. The basalt came from a volcanic plug on the far... Open it on the map · Read the story
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