Satawan Atoll is part of the Mortlock Islands in the Caroline Islands, administratively part of Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia. The Caroline Islands form a large Archipelago of widely scattered islands in the western Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Guinea. Chuuk &mdash formerly Truk, Ruk, Hogoleu, Torres, Ugulat, and Lugulus &mdash is an island group in the south western The Federated States of Micronesia is an Island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, north of Papua New Guinea. A Japanese airfield was located on the atoll during World War II. The are the dominant Ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent of these approximately 127 million are residents of Japan World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
Satawan Atoll administratively conists of four of the 40 municipalities of Chuuk State, named after the principal islets:
- Satowan (Satawan) (east)
- Ta (south)
- Kuttu (Kutu) (west)
- Moch (More) (north)
Satowan and Ta municipalities are statistically grouped with the "Lower Mortlocks", and Kuttu and Moch municipalities with the "Mid Mortlocks".
Satawan Atoll had a population of 2. 935 as of the 2000 census. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population Satawan Atoll is located at and has a total area of 419 km² (including the lagoon), but a land area of 4. A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow salt or Brackish water separated from the deeper Sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank, coral 6 km² only.
External links
- Mortlock Islands The two distinct island groups named "Mortlock Islands"
- Re Satowan
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