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What is Guam?
Guam is an unincorporated organized territory of the US. The indigenous people are called Chamorros. The main languages are Chamorro and English. The people are US citizens.
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Where is Guam at?
Guam is in the western Pacific at 13 degrees north latitude and 144 degrees east longitude. It is the westernmost territory of the US. Guam is about 1,500 miles east of Man…ila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan; and about 3,800 miles west of Honolulu, Hawaii. (MORE)
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Where is Guam?
Guam is an island in the Western Pacific Ocean. Latitude/Longitude 13º 30n, 144º 48E. Guam lies between 13.2°N and 13.7°N and between 144.6°E and 145.0°E, an…d has an area of 212 square miles (549 km 2 ), making it the 32nd largest island of the United States . It is the southernmost and largest island in the Mariana island chain and is also the largest island in Micronesia .Guam is the closest land mass to the Mariana Trench , a deep subduction zone , that lies beside the island chain to the east. Challenger Deep , the deepest surveyed point in the Oceans , is southwest of Guam at 35,797 feet (10,911 m) deep. The highest point in Guam is Mount Lamlam , which is 1,332 feet (406 m), and surprisingly, is also considered the tallest mountain in the world from below sea level, since it extends in to the Mariana Trench .The island of Guam is 30 miles (48 km) long and 4 mi (6 km) to 12 mi (19 km) wide. The island experiences occasional earthquakes due to its location on the western edge of the Pacific Plate and near the Philippine Sea Plate . In recent years, earthquakes with epicenters near Guam have had magnitudes ranging from 5.0 to 8.7. Unlike the Anatahan volcano in the Northern Mariana Islands , Guam is not volcanically active. [7] However, due to its proximity to Anatahan, vog does occasionally affect Guam. [8] The northern part of the island is a forested coralline limestone plateau while the south contains volcanic peaks covered in forest and grassland. A coral reef surrounds most of the island, except in areas where bays exist that provide access to small rivers and streams that run down from the hills into the Pacific Ocean and Philippine Sea. [9] The island's population is most dense in the northern and central regions. [6] (MORE)
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Why are there no birds in Guam?
there are birds on Guam, but most of the native birds were killed by the brown tree snake that the US accidentally introduced. The snakes stowed away in ships' cargo brought i…n from other parts of the Pacific (like the Solomon islands) where the snakes are native. (MORE)
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What is the motto of Guam?
Guam's motto is "Where America's Day Begins" This motto was "invented" as part of a promotional campaign for tourists.
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What was Guam used for?
mostly as a port for traders, and whalers. it later was used a miltary outpost and garrison. now it is a strategic location for America in the pacific.
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Why does the US have Guam?
Because they won it as a spoils of war in 1898. as part of the Treaty of Paris the US got Guam, Philippines and Puerto Rico and paid then-$20 million for the new possessions.
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Where to get Guam tar?
Player made item. Use a clean Guam herb on a pestle and mortar, then use the crushed Guam on swamp tar to make Guam tar.
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Is Guam a colony?
The easy answer is NO. The reason for that answer is that it is a federal territory. There can be no colonies any more. The Constitution of the United States grants all powers… to the States and only the powers given from the States is to be held by the federal government. In this regard any non-State land under the Constituion of the United States is to be considered federal territory, and as such is under the laws of the U.S. Constitution. Each State is under the laws of their own Constitution. (MORE)
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Is there cannibals in Guam?
You gotta be kidding me... Cannibal? First of all Guam is a US territory, This island have a low crime rate... Ive been living here my whole life and i never heard of such thi…ng.. No! theres no Cannibals here on Guam. (MORE)