Ngulu Atoll is a
coral atoll
Corals are marine invertebrates within the class (biology), class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact Colony (biology), colonies of many identical individual polyp (zoology), polyps. Coral species include the important C ...
of three islands in the
Caroline Islands in the
Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district in
Yap State in the
Federated States of Micronesia.
Ngulu extends for by with 18 reef segments enclosing a deep central
lagoon of . The eastern portion of the reef is deeply submerged. Its total land area of the nine islets is only .
Nugulu is located approximately south-southwest of
Yap and is the westernmost atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
The population of Ngulu was 26 in 2000.
History
First recorded sighting of Ngulu Atoll was by the Spanish navigator
Alonso de Arellano on 23 January 1565 on board of the
patache ''San Lucas''.
[Sharp, Andrew ''The discovery of the Pacific Islands'' Oxford, 1960, p.36.] In 1802 it was explored by Spanish naval officer Don
Juan Lafita.
As with all of the Caroline Islands, sovereignty was sold by
Spain to the
Empire of Germany in 1899. The island came under the control of the
Empire of Japan after
World War I, and was subsequently administered under the
South Seas Mandate
The South Seas Mandate, officially the Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean Lying North of the Equator, was a League of Nations mandate in the "South Seas" given to the Empire of Japan by the League of Nations following Wo ...
. Following
World War II, the island came under the control of the
United States of America and was administered as part of the
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947, and became part of the
Federated States of Micronesia from 1979.
References
* ''Columbia Gazetteer of the World''. Vol. 1, p. 900
External links
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Islands of Yap
Municipalities of Yap
Atolls of the Federated States of Micronesia
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