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  2. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands - Wikipedia

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    Saipan [2] (/ s aɪ ˈ p æ n /) is the largest island and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, a Territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean.According to 2020 estimates by the United States Census Bureau, the population of Saipan was 43,385. [3]

  3. Northern Mariana Islands - Wikipedia

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    Forbidden Island (Partially connected island on South East of Saipan) Tinian, a quiet rural island with many cattle ranches and historical sites; Aguijan (Goat Island) (This uninhabited island south of Tinian is filled with birds and goats) Naftan Rock; Rota, (also known as Friendly Island) Also inhabited. Anatahan Volcano is a small volcanic ...

  4. Mañagaha - Wikipedia

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    Mañagaha (or Managaha) is a small islet which lies off the west coast of Saipan within its lagoon in the Northern Mariana Islands.Although it has no permanent residents, Mañagaha is popular among Saipan's tourists as a day-trip destination due to its wide sandy beaches and a number of marine activities including snorkeling, parasailing and jet skiing.

  5. Saipan, placid island setting for Assange's last battle, is ...

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    SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — It was a peculiar setting to the final act in a legal drama that has now spanned the globe: a rural Western Pacific island, where visitors are usually ...

  6. Suicide Cliff - Wikipedia

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    Suicide Cliff is a cliff above Marpi Point Field near the northern tip of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, which achieved historic significance late in World War II.. Also known as Laderan Banadero, it is a location where Japanese civilians and Imperial Japanese Army soldiers took their own lives by jumping to their deaths in July 1944 in order to avoid capture by the United States.

  7. Banzai Cliff - Wikipedia

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    Banzai Cliff is a historical site at the northern tip of Saipan island in the Northern Mariana Islands, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.Towards the end of the Battle of Saipan in 1944, hundreds of Japanese civilians and soldiers (of the Imperial Japanese Army) jumped off the cliff to their deaths in the ocean and rocks below, to avoid being captured by the Americans.