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Nan Madol complex map. Nan Madol is an archaeological site adjacent to the eastern shore of the island of Pohnpei, now part of the Madolenihmw district of Pohnpei state in the Federated States of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean. Nan Madol was the capital of the Saudeleur dynasty until about 1628.
Name Image Location Criteria Year Description; Nan Madol: Ceremonial Centre of Eastern Micronesia† : Pohnpei. Cultural (i) (iii) (iv) (vi) 2016 Nan Madol is a series of more than 100 islets off the south-east coast of Pohnpei that were constructed with walls of basalt and coral boulders.
Nan Madol complex. Religion during the Saudeleur dynasty featured megalithic temples and funerary sites, food offerings, and oracular divinations. The central cult of the Saudeleur Dynasty was at Nan Madol, where offerings were made to the Thunder God Nahn Sapwe, or Daukatau, from whom the Saudeleur derived legitimacy. Nahn Sapwe was venerated ...
A now-ruined thirteenth-century religious complex called Nan Madol was built using columnar basalt quarried from various locations on the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia. Detail of columnar basalt pieces at Nan Madol. Hexagonal basalt was used to build retaining walls by early settlers in some places around Dunedin in New Zealand.
It is best known as the location of the ruined city of Nan Madol, the capital of the Saudeleur Dyanasty until 1628, which consisted of a series of artificially constructed islets off Temwen's southern coast. Along with the rest of Pohnpei, it forms a large inlet called Madolenihmw Bay.
The Federated States of Micronesia (/ ˌ m aɪ k r oʊ ˈ n iː ʒ ə / ⓘ; abbreviated FSM), or simply Micronesia, is an island country in Micronesia, a subregion of Oceania.The federation consists of four states—from west to east: Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae—that span across the western Pacific just north of the equator, for a longitudinal distance of almost 2,700 km (1,700 mi).
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in the Federated States on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
What is more, a quick check of "The Call of Cthulhu" at Wikisource shows that the location of R'lyeh is specifically given in the story as "S. Latitude 47° 9', W. Longitude 126° 43'", almost 10,000 kilometers from Nan Madol.