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Aerial view of Jellyfish Lake on the island of Eil Malk in Palau. This view is looking west across the lake, past small coral and rock islets and toward the Seventy Island Preserve, which is about 11.5 km (7 mi) away. Photo courtesy of the US National Park Service.
Located on Eil Malk island, Jellyfish Lake is an unusual marine lake that is poplated almost exclusively by two species of jellyfish: golden and moon jellyfish. Eil Malk is part of the Rock Islands, a group of small, rocky, and mostly uninhabited islands in Palau's Southern Lagoon, between Koror and Peleliu.
Beach on the southwest coast of Peleliu, Palau, where the US Marines landed on 15 September 1944 at the start of the Battle of Peleliu.
The Peleliu War Museum in Palau is housed in a former Japanese storage bunker that was used during the Battle of Peleliu (15 September 1944 – 27 November 1944) as a command post.
US Marine Corps Medal of Honor Winners Memorial on Peleliu in Palau.
The remains of a Japanese airfield building on Peleliu, Palau.
Japanese defender cave position on Peleliu, Palau.
Japanese memorial on Peleliu, Palau.
Palau’s Rock Islands Southern Lagoon consists of 445 limestone islands shaped by volcanic activity in an area of about 42 sq km (16 sq mi). The islands are now largely uninhabited, but stone villages, burial sites, and rock art remain from a 2,500-year period of habitation that ended in the 18th century.
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