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Hotel on Rota Map of the four municipalities of the Northern Mariana Islands, with Rota highlighted in red. It is the southernmost. Rota (Chamorro: Luta), also known as the "Friendly Island", is the southernmost island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and the third southernmost of the Marianas Archipelago (the first being Cocos Island).
The first death from coronavirus in the CNMI occurred on March 30 at Kanoa Resort. A second death was reported on April 7 at the Commonwealth Health Care Corporation (CHCC). On 13 April, the CNMI received 20,000 test kits from South Korea; this shipment is expected to be the first of three, totaling 60,000, to arrive. Statistics
Heading south from the CNMI, south of Rota is Guam. To the east is Wake island, then further east is the island of Midway, and eventually the start of the Hawaiian island chain. American Samoa is located to the east and south, and lies below the Equator. To the north and east, lies Alaska, which is a string of islands known as the Aleutians.
Songsong. Coordinates: 14°08′26″N 145°08′30″E. / 14.14056°N 145.14167°E / 14.14056; 145.14167. Territory. Northern Mariana Islands. Songsong is the second largest village on the island of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands, United States. As of 2000, its population is 593. [1] Songsong is located along the southern coast, in a ...
The Northern Mariana Islands Senate is the upper house of the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature. The Senate consists of nine senators representing three senatorial districts ( Saipan & the Northern Islands, Tinian & Aguijan, and Rota ), each a multi-member constituency with three senators. Maria Frica Pangelinan was the first ...
North Field was a World War II airfield on Tinian in the Mariana Islands.Abandoned after the war, today North Field is a tourist attraction. Along with several adjacent beaches on which U.S. Marines landed during the Battle of Tinian, the airfield is the major component of the National Historic Landmark District Tinian Landing Beaches, Ushi Point Field, Tinian Island.
It is named after the CNMI's first superintendent of education, William Sablan Reyes. It was established as the Findley School for Native Children in 1946 and was later renamed to Chalan Kanoa Elementary School. It received its current name in 1984. San Vicente Elementary School (San Vicente) Rota
The Mariana Islands ( / ˌmæriˈɑːnə / MARR-ee-AH-nə; Chamorro: Manislan Mariånas ), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fourteen [1] longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th ...