Challenger Deep, about 180 miles away. The population of Fais Island was 215 in 2000. Fais Fais Island is an oblong, oval-shaped raised coralline mass with...
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Louis Tromelin (section Fais Island)
missions, and credited with the discovery of Phoenix Island (Rawaki) in the Phoenix group and Fais Island in the Carolines. Tromelin joined the French Navy...
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Look up fais in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fais may refer to: Fais, Dutch singer-songwriter of Dutch and Moroccan descent. Fais Island, one of the...
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Missionary Aviation makes periodic trips to the outer island airfields of Ulithi Atoll and Fais Island. Woleai airfield is currently closed for repairs. Yap...
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and most of the Caroline Islands with exceptions such as Fais Island and Nukuoro, the Marshall Islands, the Gilbert Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Tonga...
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Yap (redirect from Yap Island)
Villalobos expedition received the same surprising greeting as previously in Fais Island from the local people approaching the ships in canoes, crossing themselves...
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Naval Base Ulithi (redirect from Sorlen Island)
Falalop built in 1952. Aerial image of Fais Island and Naval Base Ulithi's Fais Airfield South Pacific islands in 1945 Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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Wahoo sighted Fais Island, and her plan to shell a phosphorite refinery was scrapped due to the untimely appearance of an inter-island steamer. The submarine...
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saw 140 boxes dropped to 59 islands. The 2011 operation included dropping twenty five boxes of IV fluids to Fais Island in order to combat a local outbreak...
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slightly less deep. The closest land to the Challenger Deep is Fais Island (one of the outer islands of Yap), 287 km (178 mi) southwest, and Guam, 304 km (189 mi)...
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