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The name Nan Madol means "within the intervals" and is a reference to the canals that crisscross the ruins. [12] The original name was Soun Nan-leng, "Reef of Heaven", according to Gene Ashby in his book Pohnpei, An Island Argosy. [13] It is often called the "eighth wonder of the world", or the "Venice of the Pacific". [14]
Map showing hypothetical extent of Doggerland, c. 8,000 BC Although the existence of lost continents in the above sense is mythical (aside from Zealandia [ 2 ] and Greater Adria [ 3 ] ), there were many places on Earth that were once dry land, but submerged after the ice age around 10,000 BCE due to rising sea levels , and possibly were the ...
The Island Hopper route was a major contributor to the financial success of Continental Airlines' Micronesia unit in 1995. [3] Round-trip airfare between Honolulu and Guam costs US$960 and one-stop island hop costs US$225 roundtrip in 1996. [3] In 2008, the route accounted for 30% of Continental Micronesia's business. [8]
The Polynesian triangle. Between about 3000 and 1000 BC speakers of Austronesian languages spread through the islands of Southeast Asia – most likely starting out from Taiwan, [9] as tribes whose natives were thought to have previously arrived from mainland South China about 8000 years ago – into the edges of western Micronesia and on into Melanesia, through the Philippines and Indonesia.
People first inhabited the island between 5,735 and 5,600 years ago, pushing their established time of arrival back between 290 and 850 years, according to a study published on March 12 in the ...
Ancient Hawaiʻi is the period of Hawaiian history preceding the unification in 1795 of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi by Kamehameha the Great. Traditionally, researchers estimated the first settlement of the Hawaiian islands as having occurred sporadically between 400 and 1100 CE by Polynesian long-distance navigators from the Samoan , Marquesas ...
San Gervasio is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the northern third of the island of Cozumel off the northeastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, in what is now the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. San Gervasio's pre-Hispanic name was Tantun Cuzamil, Mayan for Flat Rock in the place of the Swallows.
The Mantra archaeological site is located along the coast of Despotiko island, the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports said in an Aug. 21 news release. Excavations at the site began in 2001 and ...