The US' new and seemingly erratic foreign policy has sent out waves across the Pacific Ocean — to the Chuuk islands in Micronesia, where local independence campaigners say it's time to start as a new ...

Once the Imperial Japanese Navy’s largest base in the central Pacific, the Chuuk islands are now an untouched wonderland ripe ...

At the bottom of its crystal clear waters, Chuuk Lagoon hides the remains of a dark past. Looking at the white sand, palm trees and turquoise waters of these islands, it is hard to imagine that ...

The Chuuk islands — a seemingly idyllic spot in the Pacific Ocean, northeast of Indonesia and north of Australia and Papua New Guinea — is one of the four states making up the Federated States of ...

The islands were the target of the US Operation Hailstorm in February 1944, in which at least 50 Japanese warships and cargo vessels were sunk. Today, those ships make Chuuk the most famous wreck ...