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Old 11-06-2010, 05:54 PM   #1
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Icon32 Nan Madol - Caroline Islands

(Off Ponape, 1,300 miles north west of New Guinea).

In the most inaccesible part of this island stand the impressive ruins of a stone age town. Blocks of perfectly hewn basalt form walls some 30ft high.

A system of canals, or rather of channels, cut the mysterious city into small islands surrounded by high walls. Gates once opened and closed these cannals on the seaward side. A wall had been built in the sea - perhaps to protect a port.

The present day Micronesians would certainly have been unable to carry out this type of construction.

No one knows when this city was built and why it was suddenly abandonedby its inhabitants - some walls have been left unfinished.

There is also the question of why such a town of such importance was built on an island as remote as Ponape?
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Old 17-06-2010, 10:07 AM   #2
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wow pretty nice find!
 
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ooooo thats creepy i wonder why it was abandoned maybe there was a huge fight/war of some sort
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