Senyavin Islands

The Senjawin Islands are an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean on the island territory of the Caroline Islands.

Geography

The Senjawininseln, also called archipelago of Pohnpei, now part of the Federated States of Micronesia, are to the east of the archipelago of the Caroline Islands. They consist of the numerous islands around the main island of Pohnpei and two a bit further west thereof located small atolls ( Ant and Pakin ).

History

Probably the first European to reach the islands of Pohnpei, was the Portuguese navigator and explorer Pedro Fernández de Quirós. More than 200 years later, in 1828 reached the Russian circumnavigator Fedor Petrovich Liitke the archipelago and named it after the Russian Admiral Dmitry Nikolayevich Senjawin. Liitke never entered the islands, but estimated on the basis of the canoes sighted population of 2,000 inhabitants.

Swell

Senjawin Islands: Ant | Pakin | Pohnpei

Outer Islands: Kapingamarangi | Minto Reef | Mokil | Nukuoro | Oroluk | Pingelap | Sapwuahfik ( Ngatik )

  • Island Group ( Australia and Oceania)
  • Group of islands (Pohnpei )
  • Archipelago (Pacific ocean )
  • Archipelago ( Caroline )
Islet Pakin Atoll Dmitry Senyavin Pohnpei State Mokil (Atoll)
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