Oct 28, 2015 · Tinian is a habited island just north of Guam. One of the largest ethnic groups there is the native Chamorro people who maintain their own ...

In the first half of the 1900s, Tinian was an agricultural producer for a Japanese sugar and rum company, and evidence of Japanese habitation is visible in the ...

Tinian is just south of the most inhabited island Saipan, but north of the populated Rota to the south. The island is home to many WW2 historical sites, cattle ...

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Three of the country's 15 islands are inhabited – Saipan, Rota and Tinian. The 12 remaining islands are known as the Northern Islands Municipality. The ...

Marble-carving workshops produce a range of traditional motifs, patterns and symbols such as cypresses, flowers, birds and ships. These draw from and perpetuate ...

Tinian was administered by Japan before World War II and became a major sugarcane-growing and sugar-processing centre. After its capture by U.S.-led Allied ...

When the Japanese nationals were removed in January and February of 1946, Tinian, Saipan, and Rota were all occupied by American military personnel. Intensive ...

Saipan (46.5 sq mi or 120 sq km), Tinian (39 sq mi or 101 sq km), and Rota (33 sq mi or 85 sq km) are the principal islands and, together with Anatahan, ...

These Chamorro people, as they came to be known, built their homes and other significant structures on giant pillars of latte stones. Tinian's House of Taga ( ...