Guam Guam (Guahan) is an island in the Pacific Ocean, with an area of 544 km², and an unincorporated territory of the United States. It is the southern part of the Mariana Islands. There are 162 thousand residents (2015). The capital is Hagatna (Agana). The Portuguese navigator Fernão de Magalhães, in the service of Spain, […]
Category: Australia and Oceania
Samoa Animals and Plants
Much grows on the green islands As on many other South Sea islands, you will find mangroves and the breadfruit trees with their huge fruits on Samoa. The pandanus tree also grows in Samoa. A plant that chokes? The banyan tree, which is also known under the term strangler fig or Bengal fig, originally comes […]