Federated States of Micronesia travel guide

Micronesia (greek small islands) is an island territory in the western Pacific Ocean. Micronesia is a collective term for an "archipelago" of more than 2000 tropical islands and atolls scattered over 3 million square miles of the Pacific Ocean. Geographically, the islands lie north of the equator in the western Pacific. The distance from one end of Micronesia to the other is almost 4000 kilometers. Micronesia is not just a country but of several independent countries that were once part of the Trust Territory Pacific Islands. The 9 islands of Micronesia are Guam (the only southern Marianas Islands), Republic of Palau (Belau), the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands and Kiribati, described the four (along with Palau as the Caroline Islands), island groups of Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae are the Federated States of Micronesia. Each of these islands has its own culture, language and history. Not only the geographical distance, produces the Micronesian islands far apart culturally a world away and many islands in between. The traditional lifestyles of indigenous people are very different, shaped by their different history, the size of the island groups and their geological nature. FSM has a turbulent history: Many of the islands were popular ports of call for whalers in the early 19th Century. Colonial powers settled later, and climax of the story were probably bitter battles, skirmishes and bomb attacks in the 2nd World War II. The islands are a true natural museum mainly in the lagoons and underwater. But even on land in the jungle, many witnesses to history can be explored. (...) more....

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