Caroline Islands

This unfinished page contains text from either the 2003 or 2005 print version of Encyclopedia of Surfing. An updated version, with more photos, is coming soon.

Isolated, windswept tropical archipelago, 530 miles south of Guam and 1400 miles east of the Philippines, composed of over 500 islands and two sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau; Palikir Pass, better known as P-Pass, one of the world’s best right-breaking waves, is located on Pohnpei Island. The Caroline Islands were first surfed in the 1960s, most likely by visiting su...

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