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Guam

(Encyclopedia)Guam gwäm [key], Chamorro Guåhan, officially Territory of Guam, the largest, most populous, and southernmost of the Mariana Islands (see also Northern Mariana Islands), an unincorporated territory o...

trusteeship, territorial

(Encyclopedia)trusteeship, territorial, system of UN control for territories that were not self-governing. It replaced the mandates of the League of Nations. Provided for under chapters 12 and 13 of the Charter of ...

Mariana Trench Marine National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Mariana Trench Marine National Monument: see under Mariana Trench. ...

Hagåtña

(Encyclopedia)Hagåtña ägäˈnyä [key], city (2020 pop. 943), capital of the island of Guam, W Pacific, in the Mariana Islands. ...

Turks and Caicos Islands

(Encyclopedia)Turks and Caicos Islands kīˈkōs [key], dependency of Great Britain (2015 est. pop. 34,000), 166 sq mi (430 sq km), West Indies. There are more than 30 cays and islands, of which eight are inhabited...

Line Islands

(Encyclopedia)Line Islands or Equatorial Islands, coral group, 43 sq mi (111 sq km), central and S Pacific. Once valuable for their guano deposits, the islands now have coconut groves, airfields, and meteorological...

Lipari Islands

(Encyclopedia)Lipari Islands ēōˈlēən [key], Ital. Isole Eolie, volcanic island group (1991 pop. 10,382), 44 sq mi (114 sq km), Messina prov., NE Sicily, Italy, in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The group includes Lipari ...

Lagoon Islands

(Encyclopedia)Lagoon Islands: see Tuvalu.

Keeling Islands

(Encyclopedia)Keeling Islands: see Cocos Islands. ...

Kei Islands

(Encyclopedia)Kei Islands: see Kai Islands, Indonesia. ...