AppendixCMarianaIslandsMapwithCHamoruNames

AppendixCMarianaIslandsMapwithCHamoruNames

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Table5Island-SpecificCharacteristics

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CHamoruname Alsoknownas: Characteristics

SankattanSiha NaIslas Mariånas

CNMI Made up of the 14 volcanic and limestone islands north of Guåhan from Rota to Urakas, spanning over 300 miles North to South. The Marianas trench starts 400 miles south of Saipan and runs along the eastern side of the archipelago.

Laguas Guåhan

Guam “Guåhan” means “place of having. ” Guåhan's capital is Hagåtña. Northern part of the island is made of limestone uplifts.

Luta

Rota Has beautiful fresh water, elders, language, and traditional knowledge.

Aguihan Aguiguan

Tinian

Tinian Sustainable cattle grazing, rich cultural sites; likely to have been the first island in Oceania to have been settled by humans.

Sa’ipan

Saipan Strong navigating, native community; the Commonwealth’s capital. Traces of human settlements on Saipan have been found by archaeologists ranging over 4,000 years, including petroglyphs at Kalabera Cave (a prehistoric burial site) and ancient Latte Stones.

Gåni

Islands north of Saipan 11 pristine volcanic islands that are largely uninhabited today but were dwelling places for Chamoru and Carolinian ancestors and also used for agricultural development by the Japanese and Germans.

No’os

Farallon de Medinilla Fishing and bird sanctuary. Sold for about $20,000 to the US MIlitary to use as live bombing range.

Anatahan Anatahan

Sarigan

Sarigan Endangered birds like the Tinian Monarch have been reintroduced there by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Sarigan has 50% of all of the Marianas Megapods or Sasngat population

Guguan Guguan Islands from Guåhan to Saipan.

Uninhabited, Important Bird Area IBA; nicknamed “Goat Island” due to the large number of feral goats present there.

Active volcano that last erupted in 2005. People were living there prior to that eruption. There is a fascinating World War II story about a single woman and her plea for survival as the sole female on the island with 50 Japanese soldiers.

In the early 1980s, Guguan was set aside as a nature preserve and is an important habitat for native species. It has never been permanently settled by humans and is free from introduced species like ungulates.

Pagan

Pagan Has an active volcano and a dormant one; minerals help to harden concrete pozzolan. Was identified in 2014 as a possible location for military weapons testing and training. After years of community pressure the DOD announced in 2022 that it is abandoning its plans for Pagan. Has populations of introduced wild cows and goats. Has historically been inhabited; a massive eruption in 1981 evacuated everyone but many have expressed intentions of returning.

Agrihan Agrihan Important resource island for traditional medicine and seafaring. Had a few residents until all of Gåni was evacuated in August 2021 due to concerns of seismic activity.

Asongsong, Asuncion

Asuncion Island The entire island is a massive stratovolcano, last erupted in 1906; Important Bird Area. Like most of the Gåni islands, it has remnants of CHamoru Latte culture.

Ma'ok

Uracas

Maug Islands “Champagne” , three small uninhabited islands, the top of a caldera, or volcano crater. Farallon de Pajaros Uninhabited, important island for sea.