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Palau Pacific Resort "PPR" is a luxury resort 2
hotel in a tranquil, lush landscape, on a
sleep in the tunnel or cruise the outer wall. Light does stream lovely beach surrounded by crystal waters. KORORThe Carolines Resort Perched on a hill Koror (Locally Called Oreor) Three islands connected by bridges and causeways make up Koror State. Nineteenth Century 6 2 Ngerechur Tet El Bad Stone Coffin Located in the village
into the cavern, but bring a flashlight to see the details. This is a great spot for a honeymoon, or for British influence made Koror the most developed part of Palau. The Japanese overtook Koror in 1940, making it their World War K-B ToBAriirdpgoret 11 Ngerkeklau of Ollei, this rectangular stone coffin is platform
divers who want to be pampered. Snorkeling with the greatest sunset views in a II Pacific headquarters. They paved roads and installed electricity, although after the war, Koror struggled to rebuild as its used for the local chiefs’ meeting house. The
URAKAMI MARU 75’-125’ (23m-38m) This 4500-ton, 387’ (118m) right off the hotel's beach is superb. A jungle setting, this retreat also has buildings and bridges had been bombed. There was little foreign interest until the early 1970s, when scuba divers and Arukoron Point stone coffin is an excellent example of expert
Japanese Torpedo Boat Tender was sunk with a hard starboard saltwater fish pond has 200 fish, clams, and access to PPR's superb beach and snorkelers discovered the magnificent underwater world and incredibly scenic islets of Palau. The advent of dive tourism and carving of a sarcophagus with both the casket
list. Partially salvaged, but good to explore. stingrays. The hotel's Alfresco Restaurant has facilities. (680) 488-3754 help from the U.S. government helped Koror to have a better standard of living. Now tourists come mostly from Japan, Taiwan, and the lid made of andesite rock.
fine dining three meals a day, and their Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia, the U.S.A., and Europe. Although the capital of Palau has been moved from Koror to
SATA 40’-125’ (16m-38m) This massive 14,050-ton, 470’ (143m) dinner buffet is one of the best meals in all Rose Garden Resort Stone pathways lead Melekeok, Koror still has the majority of the population, plus it has most of Palau’s finest hotels and restaurants, an aquarium,
Imperial Japanese Navy Fleet Tanker was sunk capsized by U.S. of Palau. The resort has a dock, kayaks, to cottages overlooking the beautiful local handicraft stores, and museums. All of Palau's major dive operators have a base in Koror. Visitors find that Koror (and all of
warplanes on the same day in 1944, and just a few hundred feet catamarans, a swimming pool, and tennis. bays of Koror and the Philippine Sea. Palau) has no street names. The road through town is called "The Main Road". and all other streets are described for where they
away from, its sister ship, the IRO. Since this ship structure is col- (680) 488-2600 (680) 488-7671 go, such as, "The Road to the Aquarium", or "The Road to PPR". The road around Babeldaob is simply called "The Compact Road".
lapsing, she is not recommended for penetration. However, she
is overgrown with a wonderful array of marine life, and hosts a Cliffside Hotel Located in pristine natural 0 1/2 1
ton of fish. surroundings, with sunrise and moonrise
views, and a balcony for every room. Also 25
IRO 70’-120’ (21m-36m) This 14,050-ton, 470’ (143m)-long Impe- features the Turtle Cove Restaurant and the Miles 5 43 Stone Faces Of Badrulchau In a field
rial Japanese Navy Fleet Tanker, sister ship to the SATA, was Jungle Bar by the pool. (680) 488-4590 there are rows of large basalt
bombed, burned, and sunk upright by U.S. warplanes. Its entire Grocery Shopping For all your grocery needs, stop in at 0 1/2 1 OLLEI monoliths. In all there are 37 stones,
length can be explored, along with its large guns. The ship is some weighing up
still penetrable. This is one of Palau’s most popular wreck dives. WCTC or Surangel & Sons. Both are great, but Surangel & Kilometers Crocodile Farm NGARCHELONG to 5 tons. The
IMETANG originsof these
NAGISAN MARU 75’-90’ (23m-27m) This 4391-ton, 36’2 (110m) Meyungs Old Sons caters more to American or Westerner tastes, and SCALE 4 stones are
Japanese Navy Passenger/Cargo Ship was sunk upright. Much of Seaplane Ramp WCTC caters more to Asian tastes. Both have shopping Palasia Hotel This 165-room high-rise hotel in the center 9 unknown, as is the
the ship has collapsed, but she is excellent for exploration. center locations with other fine stores. reason that many
Arakabesang Island Outdoor Swimming Pool 47 have been carved
into scary faces.
ARAKABESANG The Carolines Resort & Softball Field Belau National Hospital of Koror has town or bay view rooms, with nice swimming
HAMLET President's pools, a fitness center, restaurants, and bars. Ming's
MEYUNGS Satellite Office Restaurant features superb Chinese cuisine.
Palau Pacific Pacific Treasures Shop HAMLET Bandido's Mexican Cantina & Restaurant
PPR Resort (PPR) Yes, you can indeed get authentic Mexican
Beach Splash Divers food and margaritas in Palau. The food is
PPR Dock great and the atmosphere is fun. Etpison Museum This privately owned museum
Rose Garden displays Palauan history and artifacts. There is an
Resort The Prison Shop Convicts spend their excellent gift shop for genuine Palauan souvenirs,
prison sentence crafting artwork out of plus the popular Reef Restaurant. This museum
Elilai Restaurant wood in the form of Palauan storyboards. rates as one of Micronesia's finest.
West Plaza Coral
This is a favorite store in Palau for gifts Reef Hotel Waterfront Villa 48 8 MENGELLANG
and genuine made-in-Palau artifacts.
Fish 'N Fins Operating since 1972, some
say this is the most complete diving and NGARAARD STATE This state has some
Cliffside tour service in Palau. The shop includes The Taj Palau You could eat at West Motel NGERCHEMAI of the best accessible beaches on Babeldaob. North Beach Cottages
Hotel photo services, a technical diving restaurants the world over trying by the Sea It also has the largest east/west stone path
center, kayaks, outrigger canoes, land to find food this good. This is not Cocoro Hotel that goes from the Pacific Ocean to the
tours, snorkeling trips, rock island tours, just the best Indian food, with MEKETII Tree-D Motel & Apts. Philippine Sea. Follow the signs to the North
and fishing trips. Fish 'N Fins can also incredibly delicious variety, but it Etpison Museum Tebang Woodcarving Shop Beach Cottages to find a terrific restaurant
set you up in their amazinag liveaboard is the best food period. When you for your lunch. Phone (680) 824-4444
dive boats, the Ocean Hunter Fleet. See are there, say thanks to Robert.
www.fishnfins.com.
WCTC
Neco Marine Dive Shop "Neco" means Ngiratkel Etpison Company, MEDELAII Surangel & Sons

founded after WWII by Ngiratkel Etpison (1925-1997), the honorable L&K Motel K-R Shopping Center
late president of Palau. Today Neco has a large air-conditioned retail
space, internet cafe, gear room, rental gear, scuba training pool, & Apts. DNGERONGER 97m 34
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photo services, and a fleet of fast dive boats. Neco Marine also Palau Visitors DW Motel New Koror Hotel Koror Island 38 40 Ngardmau
Authority Palasia Hotel & Bay
features The Drop-off Bar and Grill, certainly one of Palau's best Bank of Guam IDID Green Bay Hotel
restaurants. Details at: www.necomarine.com HK Motel Palau Ming’s Restaurant
Peleliu Club Paradise Divers NGERKESOAOL
Hotel Palasia Hotel NGARDMAU STATE The ruins and
Kosiil Landing Judicial Building VIP Guest Hotel terraced strip mines of the 1930's
West Plaza Bank of Fuji Japanese bauxite mining operations
Long Island Hotel Desekel Hawaii Restaurant Penthouse IKELAU can be found in Ngardmau State.
Recreation Area Hotel Bullet holes can be seen at the pro-
Yuhi Motel cessing plant ruins and at cable car
MAML Palau International Koror State West Motel Plaza Shinto Shrine NGERMID locations where processed ore was BKUL A
Divers Coral Reef Center Capitol Suriyotahai Restaurant HAMLET brought back to a dock area to be NGESANG
Coral Reef shipped to Japan's aluminum plants. NGARAARD
Palau Marina Hotel Fish 'N Fins Lehn's Motel The Guest Lodge
& Apts.
Sam’s Tours
Research Ctr. Palau Aquarium Nikko Hotel (closed)
Belau National Museum This wonderful museum
Sam’s Tours This superb PADI five- Dolphins NECO Marine Palau displays Palau’s culture and natural history from 5
Pacific Plantation ancient times, through the Japanese period, the
star National Geographic dive centerRock Island Tour Co., trust territories period, and into modern times. 175m
and eco-adventure tour company UBDI Belau Tour Palau Royal Resort Blue Marlin Dive Shop Resort Has a fantastic gift shop and book store. 5
operates year round, offering scuba
trips, snorkel trips, rock island tours, Belau Art Gallery NGETBONG
Palau Diving Center
Nikko Bay
land tours, and kayak trips. Sam's Palau Marine Club Day Dream Divers
West Plaza Hotel
guides have intimate knowledge of Ferries to Anguar & Peliliu NGERBECHED
Antelope Divers Palau Plantation Resort
Palau. For a special adventure, ask to Palm Bay Bistro Red Rooster Café Fifteen rooms available 204m
explore one of Palau's 72 salt water at this fine hotel located NGKEKLAU
lakes. Visit www.samstours.com Malakal Palau MAML Divers Full service in the middle of a lush 49
Terminal dive shop, specializing in primeval forest. Offering Ngardmau Waterfalls An hour or two
Dolphins Pacific Palau's dolphin Island serving Asian tourists. authentic Japanese and from the Ngardmau Dock, depending
research facility also offers a fine Port) Palauan cuisine at on your trekking ability, or hike down
rock island dolphin experience. Malakal Beach Side Hotel Yoshitsume BBQ. Call from the Compact Road in about 20
Blue Marlin Dive Shop Dive shop specializing (880) 488-3631 or visit min. You can swim in the stream below
Rip Tide Bar & Grill in catering to Asian tourists.. the lovely falls. The falls are locally
See www.dolphinspacific.com 9 Ngardmau known as Medala Iechad. Expect to
27 NGARDMAU Waterfalls pay a fee. There are also a couple of
Palau Mariculture Development Center Palau Royal Resort Five-star resort hotel has cabins at the falls that you can rent
Millions of clams are nurtured in the all of the amenities, including luxury rooms from the locals.
world's largest giant clams nursery, and a sunning beach. Conveniently located
and then they are released into the on a gorgeous bay. Hotel restaurant offers
bays. PMDC rears hawksbill turtles for both Asian and Western cuisine.

release as well. Palau Aquarium Seventeen habitats 226m
242m
West Plaza Hotels The West Plaza Coral Ice Box Park Nice grassy park with and ten aquariums display the fabulous Lake Ngardok The largest natural lake
Reef, By the Sea, Downtown, Desekel, stairstep access to interesting snorkeling. beauty, diversity, and importance of in Micronesia is the center of the Ngardok
and Malakal offer you diver-friendly Named for Japanese ice manufacturing Palau's coral reef environment. Nature Reserve. Its wetlands and uplands
comfort and affordibility on Koror and that was once located here. forest provide habitat for rare birds, rare

Malakal Islands. (680) 488-2133 www.palau-resort.com 393 native plants and orchids, and the endan-
gered crocodile, "ius". This lake collects
1 NGIWAL water from a 1000-acre watershed and

PELELIU At the southernmost end of PELELIU 155m drains to the sea via the Ngerdorch River.
Palau's huge barrier reef is the island of 136m The reserve protects this habitat and
Peleliu, which was the location of some of 170
the WWII Pacific Theatre's fiercest Nose (TWoaecsht eClhManlenne7g5l)ui Japanese Cannons Two cannons guarantees water quality for nature and a
fighting, as the Allied Forces routed the Ridge from World War II are found pristine water supply for the people of
Japanese occupiers. Underground forts Photo by Mandy Etpison, Neco Marine along71a red-colored road. Melekeok. Permission to enter is required
and caves were sealed off when the from the Reserve Manager or from the
285 6 Namai State office. Call (680) 488-1755. An

Japanese soldiers refused to surrender. Bay officer will accompany you.
Japanese and American memorials are
found all over the island, plus there are NGEDBUS WEST CHANNEL Ngimis SUNKEN VILLAGE
old tanks, engines and other war debris DROP-OFF 26 Village Ruins
rusting away. Numerous companies, 64 Ngedbus WILD WEST CORAL GARDEN 181m Sunken City (Ngibtal) According to
including Palau's major dive shops, offer Imeong Traditional Village A fascinating piece of BKULANGRIIL Palauan legend, this city sank into the
sea when it was flooded after a bread-
land tours of Peleliu, sometimes between ancient Palauan history where you can walk along 216m Ngardok fruit tree was cut down. Water gushed
or after dives. Many of the 100+ local ancient stone roadways to view stone platforms Nature out where the tree had stood.
houses look like a makeshift museum with Peleliu Elementary School Island View Inn and building sites, a stone bridge, burial locations, NGAREMLENGUI Reserve
WWII artifacts in their yards on display. WWII Japanese North Dock stone monoliths, and cultural sites.
North Karamadoo Lake Ngardok BLISANG Melekeok Bai This traditional bai was built
Communications Center Beach by the people of Melekeok, and is one of four
standing bais in Palau.
Peleliu is reached via boat or via small KLOUKLUBED Governor's President Remeliik's Ngetbar Reef Uluang Terraces These terraces are considered to be
aircraft, which lands at a WWII Japanese VILLAGE 63m Office Grave Site one of the most important archeological sites in Palau.
landing strip. This island state is known Mayumi's Inn IMELCHOL These beautiful examples of ancient agricultural terraces DESTROYER MELEKEOK
for fabulous scuba diving sites. Storyboard Resort VILLAGE were abaondoned after inter-village warfare. WAKATAKE
Keibo's Store

U.S. Wildcats Monument Radar Hill Odalmelech Stone Faces This site
dates to 895 A.D. There are six
Wenty Inn 23 stone faces, which are believed to
represent Odalmelech (a Palauan
NGERKSIUL 92m god) and his five councilmen.
NGERULING
49 Ruriid 10 45 Bay

YELLOW 49 Conservation Area
0 1 WALL 33 KIBU MARU

Miles 1 PELELIU NGAREMLENGUI STATE Along the main dirt road Ngerdiluches
0 entering the interior of Ngaremlengui State, you will Reef
Bloody see the remains of a Japanese pineapple plantation and 54
Kilometers Ngebad cannery. Old ovens and loads of rusting machinery 125m
SCALE 23 cannot be missed. A stone monument overlooks the
plantation area. Look carefully for a wrecked seaplane's
166 1 Ngurungor Ngesual wings and engine on the opposite side of the road. NGATPANG

Bloody Nose Ridge Monuments Ngurungor Picnic Area Ngatpang 175m NGCHESAR
81m Waterfall Ngerdorch River
Japanese Shrine Peleliu Shrine Ngermelt Swimming Hole
Japanese Cannon & Tank World War II Monument The main bombed out Japanese Military Watershed
Headquarters and a present day war memorial are along the main
road through Ngatpang State near a rusting communications tower.
Japanese War Ruins American Tanks American priests and missionaries were executed at a nearby hill 149m
Japanese Power Plant during the war. The pyramid-shaped monument is dedicated to the
souls of the American and Japanese soldiers and the people of Palau AIMELIIK
White Japanese Military Headquarters Honeymoon who were killed during World War II. ELECHUI Idims Reef The Capital Of Palau Melekeok is the
Beach Beach new capitalof Palau, with magnificent
155 Japanese Strip Aimeliik Bai A traditional Bai built by the BKURRENGEL BKULNGETCHUIR capitol, legislature and court buildings.
STINGRAY 16 people of Ameliik, and one of four standing 29
Tank POINT
Landing Bais in Palau. BLUE SEA LAKE
81st Infantry 27 6 147m Toach Ngerdorch
Division Memorial Purple Mangroves
Beach
Orange
ORANGE Beach PURPLE BEACH
BEACH DROP-OFF

SOUTH DOCK 53 9 NGERKEAI 62
457 South Dock 86
SHIPWRECK POINT 93 BABELDAOB
PELELIU WALL 17
PELELIU CUT Ngerewal Picnic Area Off Road Eco Tours Babeldaob
Bloody ROCK PAINTINGS Along the tops of several is intertwined with muddy dirt
Peleliu Peace Memorial Park Beach rock islands are the remnants of man-made roads, pristine rain forests, rivers 47 Ngemelachel Passage
605 pathways. Along the pathways there are 3 and waterfalls, plus WWII relics, 16 25
PELELIU CORNER 69 numerous natural caves, which are amazing
archeological sites because of ancient 10
PELELIU EXPRESS pictographs painted in red ochre. Ulong
18 Island has the largest single collection of 18 Airai Bai This oldest bai in Palau is said to be
pictographs. On Koror a site called "White over 200 years old. Traditionally used by the
Face" is near the Harbor Channel and can ancient stone pathways and 211m NGCHESECHANG village chiefs of Airai, the building is sacred.
therefore be seen by passersby in dive abanondoned old villages. You Show respect when visiting and expect to pay
boats. Some pictographs show scary faces can explore these otherwise AIRAI
368 similar to the huge Stone Face carvings inaccessible places on an eco
found in many places around Palau.
38 tour in a Polaris AWD vehicle.
36 40
6 Photo by Mandy Etpison, Neco Marine Photo by Tova Bornovski,
80 Fish 'N Fins

Ngertachebea1b3 a small fee.
(Komebail Lagoon)
5 6 14
41 Ngetngod
1 102m Palau International 103m
6 36 See Koror Details Above Airport GOIKUL Reef
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CAPTAIN HENRY WILSON The first extensive contact with TESHIO MARU Toachl Mid Passage 3 539
outsiders that Palauans had ever had was when Capt. Henry
Wilson sailed from Great Britain and shipwrecked on Ulong 25 Ngerekebesang JAKE SEAPLANE Airai View AIRAI Airai Dock A replica of an ancient war canoe
aboard the Antelope in 1783. With the ship hopelessly wrecked, 11 Hotel sits in a canoe house at the Airai dock.
Capt. Wilson befriended the Ibedul, high chief of Koror. They Japanese
exchanged goods and learned to get along for 6 months while 53 AMATSU MARU 19 Koror Communications 22
the Palauans helped build a new boat using Ulong's great trees, Center
salvaged wood from the Antelope, and English tools and 48 477
89 technology. The "Oorolong" was built and sailed to Macau. RAIZAN MARU Orrak AIRAI Down through ancient times, Palau was divided into two
14 Meanwhile, with the gift of guns, English goods, and Capt. independent confederations. The High Chief of Koror, known as
Wilson's help the Ibedul conquered Melekok. At the high chief's 5 KOROR JAKE the Ibedul, controlled one clan. The high chief of Melekeok, known
request, Capt. Wilson took the Ibedul's son back to England to 19 LST T1 SEAPLANES as the Reklai, controlled the other clan. All of Palau aligned itself
be educated in the ways of the west. Unfortunately, smallpox 7 CHANDELIER CAVE with one side or the other throughout recorded history. Warfare
overcame the lad in England and he never returned. However, & CAVE was territorial with fishing grounds and fertile land at stake.
from that time forward the westernization of Palau has Alliances and boundary matters were either negotiated or fought
continued. 3 11 30 32 over. Airai State was the neutral meeting location where each of
32 CHUYO MARU the warring clans had a landing place and a safe place for diplomacy.
Nikko Bay 109m 12 Goraklbad Passage
12 Metukerabisech Quarry
20 2 13 RYUKO MARU Malakal
20 20 9 15 15 Harbor HELMET WRECK 23

14 (DEPTH CHARGE WRECK) 5 36 5
36
30 138m 7
URAKAMI MARU
"Survivor Palau" (2004) & "Survivor Micronesia" (2007) Dive and snorkel tours Yapese Stone Money Quarries The Yapese used clam shell adzes to quarry 0 2 4
visit Ulong's stunning beach and giant jungle forest between dives and discover KAIBAKU stones from which they made huge coins. The Yapese currency were large 0 4
that the scene is familiar. That's because millions of viewers have seen this site TUNNEL disks with holes in the middle. The trip between the quarry sites and Yap was Miles
on the reality TV show, "SURVIVOR." 2
Western 177m dangerous and many men lost their lives along the journey. The value of the
Lagoon PILLBOX stone money was not based on size, but rather the number of lives lost in the Kilometers
Ulong Pictographs A large collection of rock paintings is found BUOY 6 CHANNEL journey to quarry it. So, the more treacherous the journey, the more value in SCALE
at the end of an ancient pathway on the northwest side of Ulong. SATA TANKER 201m WRECK
Pictographs show humans and unusual conoes. The sites are also German the stone money. The piece of stone money with the highest value is actually
littered with shards of pottery and human bones. The peoples Lighthouse Ulebsechel so small that you could hold in the palm of your hand.
that were here are of unknown origin. Ngel Channel
16 14 IRO TANKER (TNogacehl eClhraanNnegle)l 36
5 Traditional Village (ruins) 6
NAGISAN MARU 7 7 793
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KAMIKAZE MARU
LIGHTHOUSE CHANNEL JAPANESE ZERO

SURVIVOR BEACH 122m 36

BICHU MARU Nikko Bay Uchelbeluu
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Photo by Mandy Etpison, Neco Marine
Klouel Toi

Koror Road
Airfield
Ngebedangel 10 6 Reef

To(aKcehseelbreakuKuesCehbaenknueul)28 6 118 Bluefin Trevally (Jack)
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27 122m 3 SHORT DROP-OFF Rainbow Runner
31 272 (NAUTILUS DIVE) 3375
Mahi Mahi
3 6 25 4 557 Wahoo
4 5 0
CORAL ARCH
16 31 25 Ngeruktabel Nautilus Palau Gamefish The waters surrounding Palau are full of
big game fish, including the ones show below, plus marlin,
9 9 3 Rael Dil sailfish, and great barracuda. On occasion specimens of Yellowfin Tuna
these beautiful pelagic species are seen by divers, espe- 245 0
JAPANESE ZERO II cially on outer parts of the reefs.
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135m Garemediu Reef 875 Philippine Sea Miles
431 0 1/2 1
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SONSORAL ISLAND Up to 500 Babeldaob Virgin Mary Statue Buddhist Memorial Red Beach AIRPORT WALL
meters wide by 1.8 km. long, Koror SANTA & Blowholes
this islet's inhabitants number NGURST
18 about two dozen. The village of Peleliu North MARIA CORNER Shinto Shrine Former Coast 58 (ANGAUR)
Neco Island Dongasoro is the capital of Anguar Pacific
Sonsorol State. Being about 400 Ocean 303 Guard Station
miles from the rest of Palau,
Seventy Islands (Locally Called Ngerukewid) 59 Sonsoral receives few visitors or Overview of Ponds Airplane
This group of islands forms the scene that most people Toachel Iou provisions. A state boat comes Graveyard
have come to envision as the definition of what Palau and goes every other month.
looks like. This particular set of islets is viewable Scuba Diving Palau A divers is entertained Subsistence farming and fishing PULO ANNA ISLAND Less than a 168
only from the air, as seen above, because the area by pyramid butterflyfish. Divers may see sustain the tiny population. dozen residents whose ancestors Abandoned
defined in the map has been set aside permanently as Ngermeaus more species of fish in Palau than anywhere originally came from the Carolines, Lighthouse
a wildlife preserve. There is no visiting allowed, and CLAM CITY FANNA ISLAND over 600 miles away, fish and farm
so the area will remain an undisturbed replenishment 0 else in the world. 40 This thickly this 550 meter by 800 meter islet. Phosphate Conveyor Belt Ruins Phosphate Plant 65 248
zone for all plant and animal life. 23 0 27 Kreis Reef wooded remote Ruins The Legend of Uab Angaur is
21 islet is Angaur Elementary School the birthplace of this story of
unpopulated. Harbor a giant who fell, leading to the
19 8 With Sonsoral it 316 creation of the Palau Islands.
forms the K Family Store School 69
Sonsoral Islands. MERIR ISLAND Only a handful of 69 Governor's Office
1 57 6 people live on this 600 meters wide
by 2.2 km. long islet, which has a
radio station at a village called TURTLE REEF
Melieli. The Tobi State boat comes
7 89 by every month or two. Catholic Church
1
Seventy Islands 17 LEGEND Philippine Sea 53 7 14 ANGAUR
Ngerukewid Wildlife Preserve 149 Ngedloch 192
JELLYFISH LAKE Favorite Scuba Sites Beach
4 Mecherchar Dive Site with Snorkeling
228 Soundings in Meters TOBI ISLAND (HATOHOBEI STATE) is 210
1 2 2 138m Bkul a Chesemiich Points of Interest Unpaved Road mi. (338 km.) north of the equator and 400 18
Lodging Paved Road mi. (644 km.) south southwest of Koror. ANGAUR Seven miles south of Peleliu at the southern end of Palau's barrier reef lies Angaur island.
Fabulous Guides 2 23 State Boundary Tobi is Palau's most remote coral islet. The The northern shoreline spouts with numerous blowholes, while much of the island has fabulous beaches.
of Favorite Places Omekang Islands 20-or-so locals fish the fringing reef, grow The Americans invaded Red Beach in 1944, making this another bloody battle site. WWII artifacts
Copyright 2011 KOROR State taro and bananas, plus have abundant and a couple of aircraft wrecks are still on Angaur. Old phosphate mines at the northwest corner of
Franko Maps, Ltd. coconuts. The occasional visitor sleeps in the island were begun by the Germans in 1909, taken over by Japanese in 1914 until WWII, and closed
www.frankosmaps.com the chief's bai. The state boat goes to by Americans in 1954. The mining site is now a brackish lake with saltwater crocodiles. Indonesian
Koror for provisions every 60 days. monkeys also inhabit Angaur, having been introduced to the island by Germans, who used the little
fellas to test the air within the mines.
HELEN REEF This largely uninhabited atoll hosts
12,000,000 nesting lesser-crested terns each year.