Pingelap

Pingelap is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, part of of the , consisting of three islands: Pingelap Island, Sukoru and Daekae, linked by a reef system and surrounding a central lagoon, although only Pingelap Island is inhabited.
Wikipedia
  • Atoll
  • …has 438 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1 metre (3 feet)
  • Description: island group
  • Also known as
    “Island of the Color-blind”
    “MacAskill”
    “MALLEABLE WW2”
    “McAskill”
    “Musgrave”
    “Pelelap”
    “Pelelep”
    “Piagelap”
    “Pigerappu”
    “Pingarappu To”
    “Pingelap Islands”
    “Pingoulap”

Pingelap

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Latitude
6.215° or 6° 12′ 54″ north
Longitude
160.706° or 160° 42′ 22″ east
Open location code
6VR26P84+2C
Geo­Names ID
2081586
Wiki­data ID
Q576348

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Pingelap” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Pingelap Atoll”
  • Chinese: “平格拉普環礁”
  • Czech: “Pingelap”
  • Danish: “Pingelap”
  • Dutch: “Pingelap”
  • Finnish: “Pingelap”
  • French: “Pingelap”
  • German: “Pingelap”
  • Indonesian: “Pingelap”
  • Italian: “Pingelap”
  • Japanese: “ピンゲラップ島”
  • Japanese: “ピンゲラップ環礁”
  • Korean: “핀지랩”
  • Latvian: “Pinelapa”
  • Lithuanian: “Pingelapas”
  • Macedonian: “Пингелап”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pingelap”
  • Norwegian: “Pingelap”
  • Persian: “پینگلاپ”
  • Portuguese: “Pingelap”
  • Russian: “Пингелап”
  • Serbian: “Острво Пингелап”
  • Serbian: “Пингелап”
  • Spanish: “Pingelap”
  • Swedish: “Pingelap Atoll”
  • Urdu: “پینگلاپ”

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