![]() I am a 17 year old micronesian and I have moved here to pohnpei in 2010 and I have been living here ever since. UNESCO: “Nan Madol: Ceremonial Centre of Eastern Micronesia”.Columnar basalt deposits can be found throughout the world but the best known is probably the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland.See also Mark McCoy, “Earliest direct evidence of monument building at the archaeological site of Nan Madol (Pohnpei, Micronesia) identified using 230 Th/U coral dating and geochemical sourcing of megalithic architectural stone” in Quaternary Research, vol. “New Research Sheds More Light on Ancient Pacific Site,” RNZ, October 25, 2016.More recently it featured as a cultural city-state in the 2016 video game Civilization VI. Nan Madol has inspired many speculative “lost continent” theories as well as songs and popular fiction. Christopher Pala, “Nan Madol: The City Built on Coral Reefs,”, November 3, 2009.On the island of Kosrae is another smaller capital at Leluh with megalithic architecture made from columnar basalt around 1300–1400 C.E.
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