Type Shapefile
To show the locations of key historic (World War II) sites around the islands of Chuuk Lagoon.
This dataset shows the locations of a significant part of Japanese military and World War II legacy scattered around the islands of Chuuk Lagoon. The features shown are remains of military bases, command centers, runways, storage areas, artillery sites, bunkers, port facilities, seaplane sites, and other war paraphernalia located on land, as opposed to sunken ships and other underwater features. It was created by Island Research & Education Initiative (iREi) (2020) by compiling location information from a number of sources, including Geoview and years of research (2001-2008) by William Jeffery (University of Guam) and fieldwork implemented with Arimichy Rudolph and Anerit Mailo of Chuuk State Historic Preservation Office (Chuuk SHPO), in collaboration with many people in Chuuk, including Gradvin Aisek, Tong Misa, and the other chiefs of Tonoas, informant and translator Joshua Suka, landowners and residents of Tonoas and Weno, and the US National Park Service / Historic Preservation Fund.
Island Research & Education Initiative (iREi) William Jeffery, University of Guam Chuuk State Historic Preservation Office Geoview US National Park Service Chuuk Visitor's Bureau, GoogleMaps, Rainbird (1993), and others
There are no expressed warranties associated with the release of these databases. Specifically, no warranty is made that the GIS data or any subsequent updates will be error free and no warranty is made regarding the positional or thematic accuracy of the GIS data. The GIS data and any features it depicts do not represent or confer any legal rights, privileges, benefits, boundaries or claims of any kind.
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The dataset is included in the Digital Atlas of Micronesia, module Chuuk, by Island Research & Education Initiative (iREi) in collaboration with Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific (WERI) at the University of Guam and funding from United States Geological Survey (USGS) under WRRI 104-B Program and FSM Department of Environment, Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM).
Island Research & Education Initiative (iREi) William Jeffery, University of Guam Chuuk State Historic Preservation Office Geoview US National Park Service Chuuk Visitor's Bureau, GoogleMaps, Rainbird (1993), and others
There are no expressed warranties associated with the release of these databases. Specifically, no warranty is made that the GIS data or any subsequent updates will be error free and no warranty is made regarding the positional or thematic accuracy of the GIS data. The GIS data and any features it depicts do not represent or confer any legal rights, privileges, benefits, boundaries or claims of any kind.
a. Converted table to shapefile; b. Projected shapefile to WGS84 UTM Zone 56N; c. Formatted attribute table and added field (name, source, etc); d. added additional features ffrom Geoview and GoogleMaps.
Features inlcuded in this dataset are basedon several sources but mainly from an excel file with coordinates and description provided by William Jeffery to iREi and information from Geoview & GoogleMaps.
Feature geometry.
Esri
Coordinates defining the features.
Additional notes. The information imported from the KML may not be complete because of the character limitation of the text field.
KML source file
Name of the feature
KML source file
Original data
Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Type of colonial period
In WGS 84
In WGS 84