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Identifier: pronouncinggazet00unitrich (find matches)
Title: A pronouncing gazetteer and geographical dictionary of the Philippine Islands, United States of America with maps, charts and illustrations
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of Insular Affairs United States. 57th Congress (1st session, 1901-1902) Keim, De B. Randolph (De Benneville Randolph), 1841-1914
Subjects: Philippines -- Description and travel Gazetteers Philippines -- Politics and government 1898-1935
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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8,353; approximately, 1901. 9,000. Race: CharnorrosJ, interinixeil with Tagalnu and Spanish. Language: A uuxed dialect of Tagalog and Si.aiii.-li. Naval station of the Asiatic fleet, Lnited State.^ uf America. TaJile of (listanceti. From Guam (San Luis dApra) to— m. Hongkong (Briti.sh), China 1,823 Honolulu (United States) 3,337 Manila (United States), N. route 1,750 Manila (United States), S. route 1,,506 Midway Islands 3,302 Nagasaki, Japan 1,440 Pellew Islands (Germany) 710 Samoa (United States) 3,097 Shanghai, China 1,700 Yokohama, Japan 1,342 LOCATION AND BOUNDARIES. The United States island of Guam, Guahan, or Guajan, lat. 13° 25 45 N., Ion. 144°39 28 E. (SantaCruz, Fort San Luis dApra), is the largest and southernmost of theMaria, Mariana, Ladrone, or Eobber Is. of the Micronesian chain of N. Pacific groups.It lies 21° (1,260 naut. m., 1,460 stat. m.) E. of the San Bernardino Strait light.The nearest land of the Philippine Archipelago is the Visayan island of Siimar (Binu-
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GUAM OR GUA.IAN ISLAND ^TiOQ,2S0 57 1 GAZETTEER OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 521 •2a\an Pt.), near the mouth of the Onis Riv. It. occupies the strate2;ic center of astiiiirircle of raihus W. with Yokohama, Japan, 1,842 naut. m. to the N., and Tosres.Strait, York (., N. Australia, 1,380 naut. m. to the S. China and Indo Chinaanil Dutch jiossessions in Asia form the W. mainland and archipelagoes fronted bythe NW. and S. coastline of the Philippine Is. The remaining 12 smaller islands ofthe Mariana group, between lat. 14° 5 and 21° N., Ion. 144° and 146° E., for amoney consideration paid to Spain by Germany, have been transferred to the pro-tection of the latter power. The nearest of these islands to Guam is Rota I., 800 ft,high, 30 naut. m. (34; st. m.) NNE. AREA. The island is 32 st. m. N. by E. to S. by W., and 9 m. E. and W., extrememeasurements. Area, 224 sq. m. PHYSICAL FEATURES. The N. part of the island rises to a summit upward of 1,000 ft. high, known asSanta Rosa. From Agaf

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