Pulusuk or Houk Island is a village and municipality in the state of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia.Statoids.com, retrieved December 8, 2010
It is a small island that lies at the end of a long submerged atoll. Pulusuk is part of the Pattiw group, located to the west of Chuuk.
The first recorded sighting by Europeans was by Spanish naval officer Juan Antonio de Ibargoitia who was commanding the vessel Filipino in 1799. He charted it as Bartolomé.Robson, R.W. The Pacific Islands Handbook New York 1946. p.142Sharp, Andrew The discovery of the Pacific Islands Oxford, 1960, p.183.Brand, Donald D. The Pacific Basin: A History of its Geographical Explorations The American Geographical Society, New York, 1967, p.141.
Name The name of the island goes back to Proto-Chuukic *t'ouka or *t'ouke.
Houk Airfield
Houk Airfield consists of a paved runway that cuts through the forested south end of the island. The rudimentary airport is not serviced (no passenger terminal, no hangars or no fuel). Caroline Islands Air has chartered flights to the airfield.
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