Oroluk Island

Oroluk (English Oroluk Iceland ) is the name of the only island of the same name Oroluk Atoll in the northwest of the Federated States of Micronesia ( Pohnpei member State (State) ).

The island, which has an oval ground plan and a land area of ​​13 hectares, in 1826 discovered by the French captain P. Saliz and originally named Ile de gordelaise. Later named the island from time to time also San Augustin and St. Augustine Iceland.

On today uninhabited island is only an automatic weather station.

Sources & links

  • Heinrich Schnee (ed.): German colonial lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume II, p.684
  • Weather station ( with picture)

Pictures

Automatic weather station on Oroluk Iceland

  • Uninhabited Island
  • Island (Australia and Oceania)
  • Island (Pohnpei )
  • Island ( Pacific Ocean )
  • Island ( Caroline )
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