Dancers from the Yapese Community of Guam perform at the 37th Guam Micronesia Island Fair on June 7, 2025.

The most traditional island state in the western Pacific, Yap, still uses stone money for some land transfers and to resolve clan disputes. Located 828 kilometres south-west of Guam and part of the ...

Members of the Yapese Dance Troupe perform an adult stick dance at Lebanon Senior Center luau on June 12. The troupe originates from the island of Yap, in the Federates States of Micronesia, and ...

The Micronesian island of Yap has a famously unusual currency: hundreds of giant discs of rocks scattered all over the island, many of them too heavy to move. Arriving on the tiny Micronesian island ...