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5 Pacific Ocean. Toggle Pacific Ocean subsection. 5.1 Along the coast of the Americas. ... Northern Cook Islands 1,041; Paracel Islands 1,000+ Juan Fernandez Islands 900;
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), [b] [11] is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting of 14 islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. [12]
The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.
Mount Marpi in Saipan Map of soil types on the island of Saipan. Saipan is the largest island in the Northern Mariana Islands. It is about 120 mi (190 km) north of Guam and 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) northeast of Tinian, from which it is separated by the Saipan Channel.
Brown boobies atop pier posts at Johnston Atoll, September 2005. The United States Minor Outlying Islands is a statistical designation applying to the minor outlying islands and groups of islands that comprise eight United States insular areas in the Pacific Ocean (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island) and one ...
Map showing the location of Midway Atoll in the Hawaiian island chain. Midway Atoll (colloquial: Midway Islands; Hawaiian: Kuaihelani, lit. 'the backbone of heaven'; Pihemanu, 'the loud din of birds') [3] [4] is a 2.4 sq mi (6.2 km 2) atoll in the North Pacific Ocean.
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Polynesia (North Pacific) 18 km 2 (6.9 sq mi) Unincorporated, unorganized Claimed under the Guano Islands Act on February 8, 1860. [122] [123] Annexed on May 10, 1922, and placed under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department on December 29, 1934. [125] Midway Atoll: Polynesia (North Pacific) 6.2 km 2 (2.4 sq mi) Unincorporated, unorganized