Twelve Mile Circle isn’t one of those sites that uses a lot of exclamation points. However, today I am bestowing that rare honor. I got my first website hit from Palau! And it wasn’t one of those phony accidental hits either. Actually, this visitor from Palau remained on the site for a solid couple of minutes. So that’s pretty cool.
Yes, the Republic Palau. This island nation in the Pacific Ocean scores highly on several “-est” categories. Fittingly, it claims several: one of the “newest” to gain independence (1994); one of the “smallest” in size (459 square kilometres); one of the “fewest” in population (20,000).
Palau maintains a Compact of Free Association with the United States. Through that, it relies upon the United States for economic assistance and military defense. However, Palau is fully independent and belongs to the United Nations and other international bodies. So it most definitely qualifies as a new location for visitors to this website.
The hit arrived on my doorstep from Koror, the most populated locale in Palau. About 12,000 people live there. For the life of me I can’t imaging what topic would have drawn someone from Palau to the site. That’s probably why this is the only Palauan visitor in the nearly two years I’ve been tracking aggregate statistics. Let’s combine that with the nation’s tiny population. Because of that I consider this a rather memorable occasion and certainly worthy of an exclamation point. It doesn’t take much to excite me.
Welcome, Palau. Tell all your friends from the rest of Micronesia to stop by too.
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