Guguan
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Guguan is an island in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The island is currently uninhabited. Guguan is located south from Alamagan and north from Saipan, and is northeast from Sarigan.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Guguan
- Islands.image_name
- Guguan island.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- US Geological Survey photo of Guguan
- Islands.map_image
- Mariana Islands - Guguan.PNG
- Islands.location
- Pacific Ocean
- Islands.archipelago
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Islands.area_km2
- 4
- Islands.length_km
- 2.8
- Islands.width_km
- 2.3
- Islands.elevation_m
- 287
- Islands.country
- United States
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- Commonwealth
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Islands.population
- - uninhabited -
- Islands.population_as_of
- 2010
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Country
- United States
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 3.87
- Elevation
- 300
- Time zone
- UTC+10:00
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- Guguan island.jpg
- Width
- 2.3
- Length
- 2.8
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- Commons category
- Guguan Island
- located in/on physical feature
- Mariana Islands
- taxon found at location
- Micronesian Megapode
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Environment
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- External links
Guguan is an island in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The island is currently uninhabited. Guguan is located south from Alamagan and north from Saipan, and is northeast from Sarigan.
==History== Guguan was discovered in 1668 by the Spanish missionary Diego Luis de Sanvitores who charted it as San Felipe. It is likely that it was previously visited in 1522 by the Spanish sailor Gonzalo de Vigo, deserter from the Magellan expedition in 1521, who was the first European castaway in the history of the Pacific. Uninhabited at the time, in contrast to other islands in the Marianas it was never colonized. As with the other islands in the northern Marianna, Guguan was sold by Spain to the German Empire in 1899, and administered as part of German New Guinea. From 1909 to 1912, the island was leased to a Japanese company, who sent hunters to gather bird feathers for the European hat industry.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Guguan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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