Saturday, September 27, 2008

I love Yap's awesome stone money

Ok. While looking at a world map, I suddenly discovered an urgent need to learn more about Micronesia (all those tiny tiny islands in the Pacific); not so much because we thought these would be a good destination for us, but just because I wanted to know what was going on with them.

In the course of poking around different internet sites, we saw lots of pictures of large (8-12 ft in diameter) disks that were identified as the islands currency. I thought this was completely awesome. There's a nice photo and short sumary on the wikipedia page for the Micronesian state of Yap (the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yap).

Carry on!

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