ELI Malk or Mecherchar is the main island of the
Mecherchar Islands, an island group of
Palau
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in the
Pacific Ocean
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. In a more narrow sense, just the southeastern
peninsula
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Etymology
The word ''peninsula'' derives , . T ...
of Mecherchar is called Eli Malk.
Geography
Eli Malk is located 23 kilometers southwest of
Koror
Koror is the state comprising the main commercial centre of the Republic of Palau. It consists of several islands, the most prominent being Koror Island (also ''Oreor Island''). It is Palau’s most populous state.
History
In the oral tradition of ...
near the fringing reef of Palau. The neighbor island is
Ngeruktabel
Ngeruktabel is an island of the Koror state of Palau in the South Pacific.
Geography and history
Ngeruktabel is the second largest island of Palau and the largest one of the Rock Islands. Like other Rock Islands, Ngeruktabel is uninhabited today. ...
.
This densely wooded island has the shape of a letter Y, is up to 6 km long and 4.5 km wide. There are more than 10 small lakes on the island. Most well known is the
Jellyfish Lake
Jellyfish Lake () is a marine lake located on Eil Malk island in Palau. Eil Malk is a part of the Rock Islands, a group of small, rocky, mostly uninhabited islands in Palau's Southern Lagoon, between Koror and Peleliu. There are about 70 other ma ...
in the east of the island.
Eli Malk is uninhabited, but there has been at least one village, perhaps three villages in the period between 1200 and 1450.
See also
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Desert island
An uninhabited island, desert island, or deserted island, is an island, islet or atoll which lacks permanent human population. Uninhabited islands are often depicted in films or stories about shipwrecked people, and are also used as stereotypes ...
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List of islands
This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water
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References
External links
Map of the Mecherchar Islands
Uninhabited islands of Palau
Koror
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