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

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

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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

5°30′09″N 153°49′01″E / 5.5024°N 153.817°E / 5.5024; 153.817

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

References

  1. Statoids.com, retrieved December 8, 2010 http://www.statoids.com/yfm.html

  2. "Oceandots - Lukunor". Archived from the original on December 23, 2010. Retrieved 2011-12-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20101223043232/http://www.oceandots.com/pacific/caroline/lukunor.php

  3. Riesenberg, Saul (October 1974). "Six Pacific Islands Discoveries". The American Neptune: 249.