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Karolinen, an island in the Pacific Occident, whose islands are the Palau Republic and the Federated States of Micronesia. Carolines can be classified into two physiographical units: the corals conquer volcanically originated peaks in the eastern part, while the islands in the westerly part are parts of the earth's seabed that have been collapsed and shifted over the sea orbit.

Rainfall is evenly spread throughout the year and generally more than 120 inch (3,050 mm) per year on the inhabited islands. On the windwards sides of high islands it can cross 180 inch (4,570 mm). More than 20 hurricanes (tropical cyclones) come from the Carolines in an averaging year. It is probable that the Caroline Islands were inhabited sooner than in the 2. cent. and there are indications that the 7. year.

The Caroline Islands were not invaded by Spain until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by seafarers who called the islands after their Emperor Charles II. In 1947 they became part of a UN fiduciary area under American law.

In the high west, the islands were excavated during the time of the Japaneses. A number of islands are supporting Tunas, which have gained in importance due to the 200 miles (320 km) of EEZ around each archipelago. The Caroline Islands have a wide variety of natural forms, civilizations and tongues, with the West having a mixture of Melanesic and Filipino influence and the Oriental Polish features.

The Nukuoro and Kapingamarangi Atolle, part of the Federated States of Micronesia, are runaways of Polynesia's west.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911

The CAROLINE ISLANDS, a widespread group of islands in the Pacific, Efofftlie Philippines and N. of New Guinea, enclosed in Micronesia, between 5° and 10° N. and 135° and 165°. They are divided into three major groups, the Caroline Islands in the West, the Middle and the East, the largest group being the Centre Group and the Pelew Group in the West.

It has a surface area of 380 square meters, of which 307 square meters of the four major islands Ponape and Kusaie in the east group, Truk-or, Hogolu in the middle and Yap in the west "Thesetislarrds are of significant height (the highest point of Ponape is 3000 ft.), but the remainder are mostly low-corals.

Weather is balanced and humid, but the islands are exposed to strong wind. Native Micronesians, the Micronese hybrid of fine build than their Pelew Island chins, have a relatively high level of mentality, are cautious farmers and especially wise shipbuilders and sailors. Germans divided the entire empire into two counties, East and West, with the seat of state in Ponape and Yap.

These islands were (at least partially) explored by the Portugese Diego da Rocha in 1527 and named by him the Sequeira Islands. Admiral Francesco Lazeano, who carried out further exploration, re-named it Carolines in 1686 in honor of Charles II of Spain. Later the islands were frequented by a few travelers; but the locals were conciliated only in recent years with the arrival of aliens; an early missionary mission (? 1731) led to one of several assaults on Caucasian men that obscured the islands' histories; and only in 1875 did Spain, which claimed the group, make an effort to enforce its own pri ests' privileges.

They were challenged by Germany, whose flag was raised on Yap, and it was expelled to the Court of Conciliation by Pope Leo XIII in 1885. In 1899 Germany took over the management of the islands from Spain and paid 25,000,000,000,000 P-tasas.

Old stonebuildings. Ponape and Kusaie have long had solid rock formations such as those found in other parts of the Pacific Ocean. No of the previously described monumental structure seems to have been built by today's Melanesians or Polynesians, while its widespread spread, which extends to Easter Island, within 400 m of the New World, points to the Pacific country being occupied by a breed of prehistory that had made some progress in general cultur.

Neolithic dolm makers have long ago invaded Korea and Japan, from where they could easily spread in the Polish and Western worlds via Scandinavia, Great Britain and Ireland.

The Neolithic man, perhaps still representative of some of the lighter and more frequent Polyynesian groups, is therefore to blame for these amazing remnants, which take so many different shapes depending on the type of place, but are generally disproportionate to the limited areas on which they are nowadays.

As these areas gradually subside, their cultures would inevitably deteriorate, although there are still reverberations of exalted theogies and philosophy in the verbal tradition and popular music of many Polish groups. On Lele Island, near Kusaie, at the east end of Micronesia, the remains show the look of a fort with Cyclops walls made of large basalt ingots.

At Ponape the remnants are of a similar nature, but on a much bigger-scale and with this distinction that, while those of Lele are all in the country, those of Ponape are underwater. All of the isle is equipped with basalt trunks, some of great size: and made of this building materials, taken by boat or raft from a 30 m radius and assembled without the use of grout, but supported by its own gravity, all solid stone ramparts and other constructions are constructed on the eastern side of the isle.

On all sides, the ramparts of the central part of the house near the Metalanim port entry are 200 feet square, with courtyards, vaults and elevated platforms with ramparts from 20 to 40 feet high and from 8 to 18 feet thick. It also has many channels from 30 to 100 feet in width, while a large number of mainly man-made islands, which cover an area of 9 square meters, are all made of the flat water of the Laguna around the port entry, with high ocean faces consisting of the same gigantic basalt trunks.

The majority of commentators, such as Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge and Mr Le Hunte, are agreed that these constructions cannot possibly be the work of one of today's Polynesia people, and trace them back to a now decayed breed, the Neolithic men of the Asian continent. STEED: Stone money.

In addition to the normal shell cash, there is a kind of coin made of giant slices of calcareous or calcareous rock or rims of 6 inches to 12 feet in size and a weight of up to almost 5 tonnes. All of these will be mined on the Pelew Islands, 200 m southward, and transported to Yap by ships from Europe.

However, some were already on the islands long before the white people arrived and must therefore have been carried by local ships or on canoes. The Caroline Islands (London, 1899); G. Volkens, "Über die Karolinen Insel Yap," in negotiations Gesellschaft Erdkunde Berlin. {\a6} (1901) ; J. S. Kubary, Ethnographic Contribution to the Knowledge of the Caroline Archipelago (Leiden, 1889-1892) ; De Abrade, Historia del Konflikto de las Carolinas, &c.