Farallon de Pajaros

Farallon de Pajaros ( called from the chip. Farallon de los pájaros on German " Cliff of Birds", also Uracas, Guy or Fanny ) is a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean. It belongs geographically to the archipelago of the Marianas and politically to the U.S. State territory of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Farallon de Pajaros is the northernmost island of the Marianas. It is 65 kilometers northwest of the Maug Islands and 591 kilometers north of Saipan, the main island of the Northern Mariana Islands. Until the next group of islands in the North West, the Japanese Bonin Islands, there are 541 km. The nearly circular island has a length of 1.8 km, a width of 1.6 km and has an area of 2.3 km ². Farallon de Pajaros is the top of an active stratovolcano with a height of 360 meters above the sea. At its base in more than 2000 meters below sea level, the volcano has a diameter of 15 to 20 km. Between 1864 and 1953, 15 eruptions have been recorded.

From 1899 to 1914 Farallon de Pajaros was part of the colony of German New Guinea. 1903, the island was leased to a Japanese company. There were hunted birds whose feathers were exported from Japan to Paris and processed there to Hat feathers.

Probably Farallon de Pajaros was never permanently inhabited. In 1985, she was found to be Uracas Iceland Preserve nature reserve. In the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands the status of the island as uninhabited area that will serve the protection and conservation of natural resources, committed. Since 2009, the island is part of Maraianas Trench Marine National Monument in the United States.

In the area of Farallon de Pajaros are two submarine volcanoes: The Makhahnas Seamount is located 10 kilometers south-west, reaches a height of 640 meters below sea level, and last erupted in 1967 from. The Ahyi Seamount lies about 18 kilometers south-east and reaches a height of 137 meters below sea level. He is associated with an outbreak in 2001, and a possible outbreak in 1979.

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