{{Short description|Atoll of Pohnpei State, Micronesia}} {{Wide image|Oroluk Atoll.jpg|400px|Oroluk Atoll seen from the air in 2023|auto|right}} '''Oroluk Atoll''' is an uninhabited atoll belonging to Pohnpei State in the Micronesia.
==Description== thumb|right|250px|Map of Oroluk Atoll Oroluk Atoll stretches from the northwest to the southeast with a length of about {{convert|32|km|0|abbr=on}} and an average width of {{convert|20|km|0|abbr=on}}. The lagoon's surface is roughly {{convert|420|km²|0|abbr=on}}.
The more than 25 sandy islets and banks, predominantly on the eastern rim of the atoll, have been washed away by cyclones through the years. Only one island remains, Oroluk Island in the very northwest corner of the atoll. Oroluk Atoll is believed to have been first discovered and named by navigators from Namoluk Island in the Mortlock Islands.
The Atoll is uninhabited,<ref>{{cite web |title=Municipal Governments |url=https://gov.fm/pohnpei-government/ |website=Pohnpei State Government |access-date=12 January 2026}}</ref> after a population of 6 was recorded in the municipality in the 1980 census.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pohnpei State Census Report - 2000 FSM Census of Population and Housing |url=https://www.pacificweb.org/DOCS/fsm/2000PohnpeiCensus/2000%20Pohnpei%20Census%20Report_Final.pdf |website=Pacific Web |access-date=12 January 2026}}</ref>
==Municipality== thumb|right|250px|Map of Pohnpei State (with Oroluk Atoll) Oroluk municipality, which includes Oroluk Atoll and Minto Reef, is one of the twelve municipalities of Pohnpei State.
==History== Oroluk atoll It was discovered by Spanish navigator Alonso de Arellano in 1565 on board of the patache ''San Lucas'', who charted it as ''Mira Cómo Vas'' (''Look how you're going'' in Spanish).<ref>Sharp, Andrew ''The discovery of the Pacific Islands'' Oxford, 1960, p.36.</ref> It was also later visited by the Spanish naval officer Felipe Tompson on 7 April 1773, who charted it as the ''Bajo Triste'' (the ''Sad Shoal'' in Spanish) due to its "horrible aspect" in his own words. Oroluk Island was charted by Tompson as ''San Agustín''.<ref>Espinosa y Tello, Josef ''Memorias sobre las observaciones astronomicas hechas por los navegantes españoles en distintos lugares del globo'' t.II, Madrid, 1809, p.17.</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.stub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/Bildprojekt/Lexikon/php/suche_db.php?suchname=Oroluk-Lagune Heinrich Schnee] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819085803/http://www.stub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/Bildprojekt/Lexikon/php/suche_db.php?suchname=Oroluk-Lagune |date=2014-08-19 }}, ''Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon''. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Band II, S. 684 * [http://www.uog.edu/up/micronesica/abstracts_31/pdfs_31_2/Buden.pdf Havarie der Norna (1861)]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * [http://www.navegar-es-preciso.com/news/pohnpei-%28islas-carolinas-orientales%29-3%C2%BA-parte-/ Pohnpei (Islas Carolinas Orientales) 3ª parte]. Oroluk and Ngatik atolls (Spanish)
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Category:Atolls of the Federated States of Micronesia Category:Pohnpei
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