Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) enters Apra Harbor on its way to mooring at Naval Base Guam for a scheduled port visit, June 2020. Naval Base Guam is a strategic U.S. naval base located on Apra Harbor and occupying the Orote Peninsula. In 2009, it was combined with Andersen Air Force Base to form Joint Region Marianas, which is a Navy-controlled joint base.
Apra Harbor, also called Port Apra, [1] is a deep-water port on the western side of the United States territory of Guam. It is considered one of the best natural ports in the Pacific Ocean . [ 2 ] The harbor is bounded by Cabras Island and the Glass Breakwater to the north and the Orote Peninsula in the south.
Agana Heights (Chamorro: Tutuhan) is one of the nineteen villages in the United States territory of Guam. It is located in the hills south of Hagåtña (formerly Agana), in the central part of the island. United States Naval Hospital Guam is located in this largely residential village.
This area is now within the community of Nimitz Hill Annex in Asan, Guam. Areas of the headquarters that were the Japanese naval communications center are within the Fonte Plateau Unit of War in the Pacific National Historical Park, located to the left bottom of this photo. Guam Highway 6 connecting Nimitz Hill to Piti has not yet been constructed.
MCB Camp Blaz is named after Guam local, Brigadier General Vicente T. "Ben" Blaz. Blaz was the first person of an ethnic minority to reach general rank in the USMC and the highest ranking Chamorro ever, as well as Guam's delegate to Congress from 1985 to 1993. [3] The base officially opened on January 25, 2023, with a ceremony on January 26.
Sånta Rita-Sumai, formerly Santa Rita and encompassing the former municipality of Sumay, is a village located on the southwest coast of the United States territory of Guam with hills overlooking Apra Harbor. According to the 2020 census it has a population of 6,470, which is up slightly from 6,084 in 2010 but down from 11,857 in 1990. [1]
Commander William C. McCool Elementary/Middle School (originally Guam South Elementary/Middle School; located in the Apra Heights area of Santa Rita) [1] [2] Guam High School Private schools
The roadway runs east and then turns south through Apra Heights, intersecting with the western terminus of GH-17, Cross Island Road. The eastern end of the roadway is at an intersection with GH-12 at the entrance to the Ordnance Annex .