In Fiction
Nan Madol has inspired a number of works of fiction about lost civilisations:
- The ruins of Nan Madol were used as the setting for a lost race story by A. Merritt, The Moon Pool (1918), in which the islands are called Nan-Tauach and the ruins are called the Nan-Matal.
- Nan Madol is the name of an album recorded by Edward Vesala in 1974.
- Nan Madol and its history have been used as the basis of the novel Deep Fathom (2001) written by James Rollins.
- It is also featured in Clive Cussler's 2009 novel Medusa.
- The novel "The Ultimate Aphrodisiac" by Robert G. Barrett is set in the fictional Micronesian Island of Lan Laroi, which was inspired by Barrett's visit to Nan Madol.
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