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Woleai holds firmly onto its traditional ways: canoes are favoured over motorboats, and there are rules against wearing T-shirts, pants, baseball caps and other Western clothing. While foreign visitors are exempt from clothing regulations, it aids your acceptance if you endeavour to wear traditional dress.

Woleai has a very interesting history which might not be widely known. During WW2 a Japanese garrison of almost 7,000 men was stationed on Woleai. The wrecks of several Japanese planes, Betty Bombers, Zeroes and Zekes are still on the island and an Emily seaplane with a wingspan of 38 meters is submerged in the atoll. See reports adjacent from cruisers for more details.

Today there are around 1000 islanders living in the atoll with the largest concentration of people on Woleai Island which is divided into five different villages. There is a high school for children of neighbouring outer islands, a general store, a clinic, and a church. The island has a running generator that provides cash electricity to each household. The runway is not in use anymore.

Position:

07° 22.13′ N, 143° 54.20′ E (Woleai Island)

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