Editing Pohnpei (section)

==Pohnpei in fiction==
Pohnpei (as Ponape) plays a role in several stories of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] by [[H. P. Lovecraft]] and others. Its role in "[[Out of the Aeons]]",<ref>{{cite web |last=Lovecraft |first=H.P. |title=Out of the Aeons |url=http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/oa.aspx |access-date=16 July 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725202343/http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/oa.aspx |archive-date=25 July 2014}}</ref> by Lovecraft and [[Hazel Heald]], was inspired by the ruins of [[Nan Madol]] (see above), which had already been used as the setting for a [[lost race]] story by [[Abraham Merritt]], ''[[The Moon Pool]]'', in which the islands are called Nan-Matal.<ref group=note>"they had set forth for the Nan-Matal, that extraordinary group of island ruins clustered along the eastern shore of Ponape in the Carolines"</ref>

Pohnpei is a central location in ''[[South Sea Adventure]]'' (1952), the second of [[Willard Price]]'s Young Adult Adventure Series books featuring Hal and Roger Hunt.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://eng.ichacha.net/zaoju/south%20sea%20adventure.html |title="south sea adventure" in a sentence – south sea adventure sentence examples – ichacha.net sentence maker |website=eng.ichacha.net |access-date=2018-02-22 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223050634/https://eng.ichacha.net/zaoju/south%20sea%20adventure.html |archive-date=23 February 2018}}</ref>

Pohnpei, or "Ponape" as it is spelled, is stated as the home island of "Mike" on the popular blog ''Dunce Upon A Time'', authored by BC Woods.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dunceuponatime.com/the-micronesian-elvis |title=The Micronesian Elvis |publisher=Dunce Upon A Time |date=30 August 2007 |access-date=17 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202045146/http://www.dunceuponatime.com/the-micronesian-elvis |archive-date=2 December 2008}}</ref>