Caroline Islands
Archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, part of Micronesia and Palau / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the island in Kiribati (Southern Line Islands), see Caroline Island.
"The Carolines" redirects here. Not to be confused with Carolinas.
The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically, they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the central and eastern parts of the group, and Palau at the extreme western end. Historically, this area was also called Nuevas Filipinas or New Philippines,[1] because they were part of the Spanish East Indies and were governed from Manila in the Philippines.
The Carolines are scattered across a distance of approximately 3,540 kilometres (1,910 nmi), from the westernmost island, Tobi, in Palau, to the easternmost island, Kosrae, a state of the FSM.[2]