Fayu (Atoll)

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Fayu, also Fayo, known to the German colonial period as Liitke Island, is a small atoll in the archipelago of the Caroline Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. Politically, it is part of the State of Chuuk of the Federated States of Micronesia. The atoll is to avoid confusion with the Micronesian atoll also Fayu West, often referred to as East Fayu.

Geography

Fayu is located in the north of the state, about 100 km north of Chuuk Atoll and 36 km west of the atoll Nomwin in the Hall Islands; despite their proximity, it is geographically but not more among the Hall Islands. Fayu is 2.7 km long and in east-west direction up to 1.4 km wide in north-south direction. It has a total area of 2.5 km ² and consists largely of the Riffplattform, but there are a small and shallow lagoon and two close together lying islands on the eastern Korallensaum with a total land area of ​​only 40 acres. 1946 a land area of ​​37.7 hectares was determined kartometrisch.

The now uninhabited atoll was inhabited earlier. In 1860 the population was estimated at 50.

Management

The islands belong to the statistical Oksoritod island region, sub-region Hall, and there to the community Nomwin.