Guguan

Guguan (also San Felipe or Farallon de Torres) is a small volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean. It belongs geographically to the island arc of the Mariana Islands and politically to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Guguan located 30 kilometers south of the island Alamagan, 67 kilometers north- northeast of the island Sarigan and about 250 kilometers north of Saipan, the main island of the Northern Mariana Islands. The nearly circular island is 2.8 kilometers long and 2.3 kilometers wide and has an area of 3.87 km ². Guguan consists of two stratovolcanoes, one of which reached a height of 287, the southern, the northern a height of 263 meters above the sea. The only recorded eruption took place about 1883. Here, from the northern crater stepped out of a lava flow that reached the coast.

Guguan was discovered in 1668 by Spaniard Diego Luis de Sanvitores, unlike other islands in the Marianas never colonized proven. The island was from 1899 to 1918 part of the colony of German New Guinea. Between 1909 and 1912, was leased to Guguan bird catcher. Three Japanese fowler began to Guguan in three months in 1730 birds whose feathers were used in Europe to Hat feathers.

Undisturbed by entrained species such as goats or cats a rich flora and fauna has been preserved on the island. So come on Guguan including the rare Lapérousehuhn ( Megapodius La Perouse ) ago. Since 1978, the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana prohibits the settlement Guguans. In the early 1980s, the island was declared a nature reserve.

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