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953:, created by the Japanese in World War II, has the longest and widest runway in Palau (1,850 metres (6,070 ft)), but was used only by small chartered aircraft after Palau's domestic flights were discontinued in late 2005. The landing strip was built during the Japanese era and originally consisted of a 6,600-foot runway oriented SW to NE with a smaller perpendicular runway intersecting the main run way about 2,200 feet from the SW. Additional taxiways connected the runways to airport facilities located to the north of the runways. The landing strips were unimproved, but still served for the daily flight from the Airai airport by a single engine plane. A third landing strip was built on Ngedbus Island, just north of Beliliou, during the Japanese administration. It was abandoned after the Battle of Peleliu and today is overgrown with a coconut plantation. In any event, in mid-2024 after months of work, U.S. Marine engineers reactivated the Peleliu airfield to enhance US military capability in the Pacific region. 1088: 414:, is a raised platform coralline island with an area of 16.98 km (6.56 sq mi). Located at the southern tip of the lagoon which encircles the main group of islands, Beliliou is surrounded by a thick fringe of mangrove forest comprising more than a quarter of its total area. On the island's west side is a steep spine named Bloody Nose Ridge during the Battle for Peleliu in World War II - rising to an elevation of 75 metres (246 ft). A second raised area, Rois ra Sang and Roischemiangel, rises to elevations of just over 50 m at the northern tip of the island. The rest of the island generally lies below 10 metres (33 ft) in elevation. Along this ridge, jagged spires of coralline limestone jut skyward in a tangled maze. 1754: 433:. As many as 10,000 Japanese defenders dug into the natural caves and fissures of the coralline limestone formations, reinforcing these positions with concrete bunkers. So well established were the Japanese defenders that they withstood a massive naval bombardment and met the American invasion force at nearly full strength on September 5, 1944. The Battle of Peleliu, which proved in hindsight to be a costly miscalculation by the Americans, dragged on for weeks of bitter fighting at a terrible cost of lives. 51: 83: 807: 1761: 1830: 66: 1850: 1840: 134: 391: 1495: 265:
Bloody Nose Ridge. Most of the surface remains of the traditional villages have been obliterated. However, the locations of the villages and the locations of features within the villages, including odesongel, are known and preserved in the oral tradition. These traditional features are important symbols giving identity to families, clans and regions.
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The ruins of many of the military installations of the era, such as the airstrip, are still intact, and shipwrecks from the battle remain visible underwater just off the coast. There are war memorials on the island to both the American and the Japanese dead. Peleliu and Angaur were the only islands
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Beliliou was traditionally divided into five villages. Teliu is located on the southwest coast bordered on the north by Ngerkeiukl on the west coast, Ngesias in the central portion of the island, and Ngerdelolk on the east coast. Ngerchol occupies the northern part of the island on the west side of
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The geography of Beliliou has been dramatically reshaped by the events of World War II. In preparation for the anticipated American invasion, the Japanese defenders transformed Beliliou into a defensive fortress. The build up, which was underway by 1943, began with the evacuation of Palauans from
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The lagoon and adjacent rock islands are important resource areas, and probably were intensively exploited prehistorically. Important resources include many different species of trees and other plants and many different species of fish and shellfish. On the islands, traditional gardens would have
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which maximized casualties on the attacking force. On both sides involved in the fighting there were high losses with more than 2,000 Americans and 10,000 Japanese killed, but, remarkably, there were no casualties among the local civilians because they were evacuated from the fighting to other
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As at Angaur, phosphate mining in the Bloody Nose Ridge area of Beliliou began during the German administration and continued into the Japanese administration. The phosphate was loaded onto ships at a small harbor facility located at the northern tip of the island.
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Most of the land use in Beliliou today is for private gardens located in and around residential areas. There are no commercial enterprises active today, and municipal use is limited to a few small facilities. A large coconut plantation is on Ngedbus Island.
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A regular boat service connects the island twice a week to Koror and Angaur. Travel time by boat from Koror is over an hour. The small harbor in the far north of the island is shallow and suitable only for yachts with shallow draft.
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in 1944. The battle for the island was particularly brutal because by this time the Japanese military had evolved island defense tactics with strong fortifications in the island's caves and rock formations within the
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Patterson, Carolyn Bennett, et al. "At the Birth of Nations: In the Far Pacific." National Geographic Magazine, October 1986 page 493. National Geographic Virtual Library, Accessed 17 May 2018.
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Palau became independent in 1978, and Peleliu was organized as a state within the new republic. In August 2014, Peleliu hosted the "leader's retreat" at the
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As of 2000, its population was about 571, making it the third most populous state of Palau. Most of the island's population lives in the village of
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in the Palau archipelago to be occupied by the Americans during the war. The capital of Koror remained in Japanese hands to the end of the war.
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The sandflats, mangroves, seagrass beds and islets just off the northern end of Peleliu provide feeding and roosting habitat for various
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The population of the state was 484 in the 2015 census and median age was 34.5 years. The official languages of the state are
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Peleliu Elementary School opened in 1946, and had its second building open in 1966, with the first still in use.
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Today, the major concentration of people live in Kloulklubed near the northern tip of the island.
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been located in areas where sufficient soil had accumulated in low lying pockets and marshes.
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The state of Peleliu has an elected chief executive with a 3-year term length, known as the
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on the northwestern coast. Including the capital, there are a total of four villages:
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is the country's only public high school, so children from this community go there.
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species, as well as being home to megapodes. The site is an IBA for the megapodes,
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Peleliu is approximately 10 kilometres (5.4 nmi) northeast of the island of
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A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean
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because it supports populations of most of Palau's endemic birds, including
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The main road lies on the west side of Bloody Nose Ridge and extends from
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to the landing strip. Secondary roads extend to all parts of the island.
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Much of Beliliou is covered by a limestone island forest with stands of
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Snyder, David.; Adams, William Hampton; Butler, Brian M. (1997).
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National Historic Landmarks of the United States by insular area
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Snyder, David; Adams, William Hampton; Butler, Brian M. (1997).
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Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Palau to the UK & NI
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and 40 kilometres (22 nmi) southwest of the island of
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World War II on the National Register of Historic Places
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at the end of January 1543. They were then charted as
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Peleliu was formally placed under the control of the
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Index

Bililiou
State
Orange Beach, Peleliu
Flag of Peleliu
Flag
Location of Peleliu in Palau
7°0′N 134°15′E / 7.000°N 134.250°E / 7.000; 134.250
Palau
Kloulklubed
Governor
Emais Roberts
Palauan
English
ISO 3166 code
Palau
states of Palau
Battle of Peleliu
World War II
Babeldaob
Koror
Spanish expedition
Ruy López de Villalobos
Spanish missionary
Sargento Mayor
patache
Bernardo de Egoy
Spanish–American War
Germany
Japan
World War II

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