Curse of the Pacific

A panoramic photograph of the megalithic city of Nan Madol at sunset, with the horizontally stacked basalt columns reclaimed by dense mangroves, showing glowing, looted underwater tunnels radiating a violet and green light

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Polynesia

Pohnpei and the Curse of the Pacific

bretwalters6969 October 21, 2026

Deep in the South Pacific, the ruins of Nan Madol stand as a silent, 90-islet defiance of modern archaeology. Built from half a million...