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12 unusual facts about Pohnpei


Aquaculture of sea sponges

Bath sponges are currently being produced using the sponge Coscinoderma matthewsi with production of about 12,000 sponges, sold locally to residents and tourists in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia.

College of Micronesia-FSM

The College of Micronesia has a state campus in each of the four states with its national campus in the capital city of Palikir, Pohnpei.

Economy of the Federated States of Micronesia

Visitor attractions include scuba diving in each state, World War II battle sites, and the ancient ruined city of Nan Madol on Pohnpei.

Emelihter Kihleng

Emelihter Kihleng is a Micronesian (and more specifically Pohnpeian) poet.

Law enforcement in the Federated States of Micronesia

The Maritime Wing, an integral unit of the National Police, is situated at the dock in Dekehtik, Pohnpei.

Micronesian American

More than half of these residents identified their origin as Chuuk State (4,211) with the rest as follows: 2,060 people from Pohnpei, 1,018 from Yap, and 906 people from Kosrae.

Mori Koben

Mori and his colleagues reached Pohnpei in 1891, where one of his colleagues got his wife pregnant and had a set of triplets disembarked to manage the company's branch store.

Our Airline

Air Nauru once had a remarkably comprehensive network in the Asia-Pacific, with service to Hong Kong, Kagoshima, Taipei, Okinawa, Singapore, Guam, Saipan, Koror, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Majuro, Tarawa, Honolulu, Honiara, Port Vila, Noumea, Apia, Pago Pago, Nadi, Tonga, Kanton Island, Niue, Raratonga, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Christmas Island.

Philippine deer

It was also introduced to Rota, Saipan, and Pohnpei but those populations did not take hold like they did in Guam.

Roe deer

German colonial administrators introduced roe deer to the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia.

Scouting in Hawaii

Aloha Council Pacific Basin District outreach efforts in the Pacific continue to grow with over 835 Boy Scouts and 240 Cub Scouts attending camps on Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Saipan, Kwajalein, Rongelap, Majuro, Yap and Palau.

Vehicle registration plates of the Federated States of Micronesia

The designs of the plates vary by state, with Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap each issuing their own plates.


Destroyer Squadron 1

Following the conclusion of the Gilbert and Marshall campaign, DESRON-1 destroyers screened Task Group 58.1 during carrier air stikes against Palau, Yap, Ulithi, Woleai, Truk, Satawan, and Ponape.

Dong Jin Kim

At this time Kim received the honorary title of Captain from the Pohnpei Police Department in Micronesia.

Luelen Bernart

Luelen Bernart (Pohnpei 1866-1946) was the first Micronesian to write a book and Pohnpei's first historian.

Nanmadol

Nan Madol, an ancient city off the coast of Pohnpei, Micronesia, after which the typhoons were named

National Wrestling League

The National Wrestling League, headquartered out of Hagerstown, Maryland, was founded by Dick Caricofe in 1988, and has held professional wrestling events throughout the United States and overseas in Guam, Saipan, Pohnpei, Hawaiian Islands, Palau, and the Marshall Islands.

Pohnpei Starling

The Pohnpei Starling was discovered by the Polish ethnographer John Stanislaw Kubary (1846–1896) and first described by German ornithologist Otto Finsch in 1876.