Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. In February 1944, reeling from the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the ...

Four people were seriously injured after a flight from Pohnpei crashed into a lagoon while attempting to land at the airport in Weno, Chuuk, Friday morning, according to officials and witnesses. The ...

When most people think of scuba diving, they usually envision colorful coral reefs, turtles and countless schools of fish. At Chuuk Lagoon in the Federated States of Micronesia, however, the star ...

CANBERRA, Australia-- A South Pacific airline announced Monday that a passenger died when a plane crashed into a Pacific lagoon in Micronesia last week. Air Niugini had initially said all 47 ...

New Delhi: Chuuk Lagoon formerly known as Truk Lagoon was Imperial Japan's main naval base in the South Pacific theater of WW2. In 1944 Operation Hailstone was launched by the United States during ...

The remnants of World War II echo deep throughout the Pacific, and that’s no truer than in Chuuk Lagoon, where dozens of Japanese military ships have met their watery graves. Nearly 7,000 tons of ...

A once important naval base was turned into one of the world's largest underwater graveyards of ships and aircraft. Chuuk Lagoon, an atoll in the central Pacific, is part of the Chuuk State within ...