Mariana Islands is an archipelago in an arc, which consists of a volcanic mountain peaks in the Pacific Northwest, along the line 145 to the east. Islands located to the south-east of Japan, to the south-west of Hawaii, in the north of New Guinea, the Philippines and East. It forms the eastern boundary of the Philippine Sea. It was named the islands after Spain's Queen Mariana of Austria, when Spain began to colonize the archipelago. Constitute the islands northern part of the region, subregion western Pacific Micronesia, which consists of two US jurisdictions: Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, at the southern end of a chain of islands, the territory of Guam.
The islands are part of a geologic formation known as the Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc system, which is due between the old five million years in the North and to 30 million years ago in the south (Guam). It arose as a result of a series of islands west of the tip of the Pacific Ocean, which is moving westward and sink down under the panel Mariana, the most volcanic activity in the border with converged on the ground painting area. Located subduction zone, east of the island chain, to form the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth's oceans and the lowest part of the surface of the earth's crust. According to geological theory, this area of water with extensive cracking of the Pacific trapping, to the high temperature of this region through the depth of subduction, resulting from the expansion of the steam in the water activity in the region, and the volcanic activity that shaped Mariana Islands and pressure.
About Mariana Islands
Mariana Islands (Island Arc), is a series of volcanic formations reefs which returns to the uplifted area in the western Pacific, which is located about 1,500 miles (2400 km) east of the Philippines. They are the highest slopes of the massive sea mountain range, with a height of up to about 6 miles (9.5 km) from the Mariana Trench in the bottom of the ocean, which forms the border between the Philippine Sea and the Pacific. It is politically divided to the island of Guam region (the land is registered in the United States), and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which was part of the logic operated by the United States, which is under the trusteeship of the United Nations of the Pacific Islands from 1947 to 1986 the province. Northern Mariana Islands stretches for about 450 miles (725 km) north of Guam. It is the most important islands of the Commonwealth, namely: Saipan, Tinian, Agrihan, and Rota. Mariana Islands has many active volcanoes, including Mount pagan, Asuncion, and Farallon de Bajros. Islands climate is tropical .
Mariana Islands economy
Mariana Islands economy is largely based on subsistence agriculture, with some of the income that you get from copra and services of US military installations. Mariana Islands reared cattle.
Population
The majority of the population of the Mariana Islands of the Chamorro by the Spanish with a large admixture of Spanish, Mexican, Filipino, German and Japanese. Spanish cultural traditions strong. Estimates of the 2007 population of about 257,500.
Geographically
Mariana Islands are the southern part of the mountain range that stretches 1565 miles (2519 km) from Guam to near Japan. North Mariana Islands are islands to the largest group of islands, which are called Micronesia, located between 13 ° and 21 ° north latitude and 144 degrees and 146 degrees east longitude. Come Mariana Islands with a total area of up to 1005 km 2 (388 square miles), which consists of administrative units, Guam, an American territory, and the Northern Mariana Islands (including Saipan Islands and Tinian Rota) that the Commonwealth is the United States
Island chain geographically consists of two sub-groups, the northern group of ten volcanic main islands, all of which are uninhabited islands at the present time; South and the group of five islands of coral limestone (Rota, and Guam, Aguijan, Tinian and Saipan), all of which are uninhabited except Aguijan. In the northern volcanic group, the maximum height of up to 2,700 feet (820 meters); and there are craters showing signs of activity, uncommon and earthquakes. Coral reefs are located on the coast of the southern islands of the slight rise.
Tourism
In July 2007, the company issued its report on the JTB the summer of 2007, he arrived census tourists in both Guam and Saipan about 170,000 Japanese tourists. JTB estimated that this area attracts around 2520000 while the rest of the Japanese people travel abroad in order to spend the summer in the northern hemisphere.
The tourism division of the Northern Mariana Islands between Korean and Chinese, the Russians and tourists, with some Japanese who prefer diving. There are many of the organizers of the big tours in Saipan that cater to Asian tourists coming to the island. So far, the majority of tourism in the Northern Mariana Islands is in Saipan. There are several flights in Saipan, mostly in the early hours 1:00 to 3:30. With the conclusion of some clothing industries in the Northern Mariana Islands, even tourism has grown slowly and has now become a significant part of the economy.
Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands (märēänä), officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, an autonomous entity in cooperation with the United States, spanning about 185 square miles (479 square kilometers), and the 16-island (6 unoccupied). E Islands are located in the Philippines and S from Japan, which extends about 350 miles (563 km) from north to south. Northern islands consist of volcanic rocks, and South islands of coral limestone Http stone that covers the volcanic base. Chamorro population, languages Filipino, Chinese, English and other languages spoken.
Major agricultural products are cattle, coconut bread, tomatoes and watermelon. The tourism industry occupies an important and special status of Japan, which is a big industry employs nearly 50% of the workforce.
