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NOAA Photo Library Image - mvey0174

Getting ready to land on the stairway to Nan Madol - a prehistoric Micronesian city constructed of basalt "logs." Basalt was quarried miles away.

Image ID: mvey0174, NOAA's Small World Collection
Location: Ponape
Photo Date: February 1973
Photographer: Dr. James P. McVey, NOAA Sea Grant Program


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