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In 1521, the first European to see Rota was the lookout on Ferdinand Magellan's ship Victoria, Lope Navarro.However, Magellan's armada of three ships did not stop until they reached Guam, so the first European to arrive in Rota (in 1524), was the Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano, who annexed it together with the rest of the Mariana Islands on behalf of the Spanish Empire.
The lack of TSA at Rota Airport was a nuisance for passengers transiting from Guam through Rota to Saipan, who had to encounter screenings (either customs or security) at all three points. At one time Rota had at least three airlines operating flights to it including Cape Air , Star Marianas , and Arctic Circle , with aircraft such as the 30 ...
Serianthes nelsonii is a large tree endemic to Guam and Rota of the Mariana Islands.Only one mature tree existed on Guam (until November 2024, when it was announced it perished to the consequences of deforestation and the 2023 Typhoon Mawar [3]), while 121 mature trees have been identified on Rota since 1984.
Guam's Point Udall is the westernmost point of the U.S., as measured from the geographic center of the United States. [35] [36] The Mariana chain, of which Guam is a part, was created by collision of the Pacific and Philippine Sea tectonic plates. Guam is located on the micro Mariana Plate between the two.
The Marianas subspecies, Myzomela rubrata saffordi, is now extirpated from Guam since 1986. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Across its wide distribution, the Micronesian myzomela occupies a range of natural and man-made habitats , from sea level to the highest peaks, although the lack of mountains in Micronesia predominantly makes this a species of the lowlands.
Taga escaped from his father by jumping off a cliff on Guam and landing on Rota, almost 50 miles (80 km) away. On Rota, Taga grew to adulthood and became a braggart about his prowess. According to the legend, it was Taga who began the As Nieves Quarry on Rota and abandoned it for reasons that are unclear.
Guam temporarily hosted 100,000 Vietnamese refugees in 1975's Operation New Life, and 6,600 Kurdish refugees in 1996. [ 22 ] : 17 On August 6, 1997, Guam was the site of the Korean Air Flight 801 aircraft accident.
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.