Ponape
Americannoun
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When Germany owned Ponape before World War I, a few scientists made sketchy reports.
From Time Magazine Archive
Best known of the missionaries is Father Hugh F. Costigan, who runs the Jesuits' Ponape Agricultural and Trade School, training 160 Micronesians at a time in such basic skills as mechanics, construction and animal husbandry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three times each week the airline's two jets, both coated with Teflon to fight the corrosive effects of salty coral runways, hop among Micronesia's six island airports on Truk, Kwajalein, Yap, Ponape, Majuro and Palau.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ponape natives call it Nanmatol, but they shun it superstitiously and have only the flimsiest traditions to explain why people built it.
From Time Magazine Archive
After we had rounded Nukuor we should, barring accident, reach Ponape in not more than sixty hours.
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
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