Part 6

Ponapé (also called Ascension, Bonabee, Bonybay, Faloupet, Faounoupei, Funopet, Niponpei, Painipete, Ponapi, Piunipet, Puynipet, Quirosa, Seniavin, William IV). Ponapé is the largest island of the Senyavin Islands.

Truk (also called Djuk, Hogoleu, Hogolu, Hoguleu, Lugulus, Ola, Rough, Ruck, Ruk, Torakku, Tuck, Ugulut). The Truk group includes approximately 100 islands.

Ulithi (also called Mackenzie, Mogmog, Mogumogu, Mokomok, Ouluthy, Uluthi, Uluti, Urushi).

West Fayu (also called Faiyao, Fajahu, Faliau, Huiyao, West Faiu).

Woleai (also called Anagai, Mereyon, Oleai, Ouleyai, Thirteen Islands, Uala, Ulea, Uola, Ulie, Wolea).

Yap (also called Eap, Guap, Heap, Jap, Ouap, Uap, Wuap, Yappu).

MARSHALL ISLANDS

The Marshall Islands consist of 29 atolls and 5 coral islands without lagoons arranged in two chains, the Ralik and the Radak chains, which extend in a northwesterly to southeasterly direction. No volcanic rocks are exposed in these islands. The principal islands shown in figure 5 are as follows:

Ailuk (also called Ailu, Fisher, Krusenstern, Tindall, Watts).

Arhno (also called Arno, Aruno, Auru).

Bikar

Bikini

Ebon (also called Boston Atoll).

Elmore (also called Ailinglap, Ailinglapalap, Iringlob).

Eniwetok

Jaluit (also called Bonham, Taluit).

Kwajalein

Likieb (also called Likiep).

Majuro (also called Arrowsmith, Mezyuro).

Mejit

Maloelab

Mille (also called Mulgrave).

Namorik

Namu (also called Musquillo, Namo).

Rongelap

Wotje (also called Romanzov, Wotze, Wozzie).

ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATION IN MICRONESIA

The Micronesian islands were first explored and colonized by a a people who came from Malaysia. It is thought that these people spread into the Palau, Caroline, Mariana, Marshall, and Gilbert islands as a single wave of migration. Following this occupation, the people apparently underwent a normal process of cultural evolution and differentiation. Remains of stone walls, dikes, fences, pillars, graves, and other structures which may be found today at various islands in Micronesia were constructed by the ancestors of the islanders of the present day. It is thought by archeologists that the Polynesians moved eastward into the Pacific islands by way of Micronesia. The date of this wave of migration is thought to have been approximately 1200 A. D. What kinds of birds may have been exterminated by this earliest of human colonization cannot be ascertained. Edible species, particularly megapodes, rails, and pigeons, probably were eliminated or reduced in numbers, as is indicated by later discussions.