Lukunor

Lukunor is an Island and municipality in the state of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia.[1]

Lukunor
Location of Lukunor Atoll in the Pacific Ocean
NASA picture of Lukunor Atoll
Lukunor population capturing large schools of a migratory fish, tiil, in 1947.

It is a small atoll part of the Nomoi Islands group, located about 264 km to the southeast of Chuuk.[2]

History

Lukunor was first sighted by Europeans by the Spanish expedition of Álvaro de Saavedra shortly after August 1528 in its first attempt to return to New Spain.[3]

Climate
Lukunoch, Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia
Climate chart (explanation)
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Precipitation totals in inches
Source: 1981-2010 provisional normals

References
  1. Statoids.com, retrieved December 8, 2010
  2. "Oceandots - Lukunor". Archived from the original on December 23, 2010. Retrieved 2011-12-06.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. Riesenberg, Saul (October 1974). "Six Pacific Islands Discoveries". The American Neptune: 249.

Borthwick, Ernest Mark. Aging and Social Change on Lukunor Atoll, Micronesia. PhD dissertation, University of Iowa, 1977.


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