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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.
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The Chugai' Pictograph Site is a prehistoric rock art site on the island of Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands.The rock art is located in a limestone cave on the southeastern side of the island, in the I'Chenchon Bird Sanctuary. [2]
The Dugi Archeological Site is a prehistoric latte stone site on the north side of Rota Island in the Northern Mariana Islands. The site is a rare inland site that survived the intensive sugar cane development introduced by the Japanese during the South Seas Mandate period of the 1920s and 1930s. It consists of sixteen deteriorated latte stone ...
Sinapalo or Sinapalu is a village on the island of Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands. The village is the largest settlement on the island [ 1 ] (followed by Songsong in the southwest), located south of the island's airport, Rota International Airport , close to the center of the island.
Antonio C. Atalig Memorial Rota Public Library of the State Library of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is in Songsong. [5] The current library was built circa 2002 but it did not open until its "soft" opening on February 26, 2012. [6] It was named after Mayor of Rota Antonio C. Atalig. [5] It adopted its current name in 1981. [7]
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The rectory on the island of Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands is a rare example of transitional Spanish-Japanese architecture in the archipelago, now a United States commonwealth. It was built about 1930, during the South Seas Mandate period of Japanese administration, when the native Chamorro people were displaced to this area by workers ...