Sapwuahfik

Sapwuahfik, formerly Ngatik, or the Raven Islands is a 110 square kilometres (42 sq mi) total area atoll of the Federated States of Micronesia. It is a village and municipality of circa 430 people on a land area of 1.5 square kilometres (0.58 sq mi) in the state of Pohnpei.

Geography

It is located 150 km southwest of the main island of Pohnpei in the Eastern Caroline Islands and consists of 10 individual islands on the reef. The largest and only inhabited island is Ngatik, at the western end.

The atoll is 22.5 km long and up to 9.6 km wide. The lagoon measures 78.56 km² in area, and the total area is 114 km². The aggregate land area of the 10 islands is 1.75 km², of which the main island Ngatik is 0.91 km², or more than half. While Ngatik is the only inhabited island, the six larger of the remaining islands are used by the population for harvesting coconuts and growing taro, and animal husbandry (pigs and chicken). There is a total of 12 buildings for temporary shelter on those islands.