Farallon de Medinilla

Farallon de Medinilla is a small island in the Pacific Ocean. It belongs geographically to the archipelago of the Marianas and politically to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Is named the island after Don Jose de Medinilla y Pifieda, the Spanish governor of the Mariana Islands from 1812 to 1822.

The island is located 72 km north of Saipan. Farallon de Medinilla is a coral island, has an area of ​​0.845 km ² and is uninhabited. The highest elevation of the island is 81 meters above the sea level. The vegetation is scanty; there are savanna grass.

From 1899 to 1918 Farallon de Medinilla belonged to the colony of German New Guinea. When the German District Officer Georg Fritz the island visited in May 1901 he found blackened caves and pottery fragments, from which he graduated to an earlier settlement by the Chamorros.

The island is used by the U.S. Navy for a long time to test bombs. 2012 continued for the tests. The tests in 2002 had been temporarily prohibited in order to protect living on the island birds.

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