Aguijan

Aguijan ( Cham. Aguiguan ) is a small island of coralline origin 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.

Aguijan is located about 8 km southwest of the island of Tinian and, with 7.10 km ² in area, the smallest island in the southern part of the archipelago; they reached the mountain Alutom a height of 157 meters above the sea. The island is uninhabited and rarely visited because of its steep coast. Because of the numerous feral goats, the island is also mockingly called Goat Iceland. The goats have the native flora largely destroyed in animal species but still smooth nose free tails occur ( Emballonuridae ) and the rare Lapérousehuhn ( Megapodius La Perouse ).

On Aguijan was during the Second World War, a Japanese garrison, whose soldiers surrendered on September 4, 1945, two days after signing of the surrender of Japan, the U.S. Coast Guard. This was the only surrender of World War II, which was accepted by the U.S. Coast Guard.