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Lost City of Nan Madol
Lost City of Nan Madol
Written By Mister Gu on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 | 1:31 PM
On the remote Micronesian island of Pohnpei is Nan Madol, one of the most bizarre lost cities on earth. Nan Madol is a maze of stacked-rock structures along the tidal flats of a shallow coral reef. The immense megalithic stone city, 17 square miles (28 sq. km) in size, resides above and below the ocean’s surface. A local story holds that when Nan Madol was being built a powerful magician living