Guam - Saipan
20.01.2015 - 14.02.2015
Mariana Islands and Guam
The Mariana Islands is a group of 15 Islands in the western Pacific. Guam is the most southern island and the others are called Northern Marianas.
The islands are sprinkled over a distance 645 km and have a total land area of 1000 square kilometers. Guam itself covers 50% of the land and is home for 200,000 people. On the Northern Marianas live only totally 70,000 people.
As early as 1500 b.C. the islands were populated from Indonesia with the Chamorros. Magellan discovered the islands 1521 and they became part of Spain. 1898 America got them as the result of the Spanish-American war. During the WWII Japan owned them for four years before they became American again.
The islands are sprinkled over a distance 645 km and have a total land area of 1000 square kilometers. Guam itself covers 50% of the land and is home for 200,000 people. On the Northern Marianas live only totally 70,000 people.
As early as 1500 b.C. the islands were populated from Indonesia with the Chamorros. Magellan discovered the islands 1521 and they became part of Spain. 1898 America got them as the result of the Spanish-American war. During the WWII Japan owned them for four years before they became American again.
