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30 unusual facts about Guam


2011–12 Guam Men's Soccer League

2011–12 Guam Men's Soccer League, officially named Budweiser Guam Men's Soccer League due to sponsorship reason, is the association football league of Guam.

2012–13 Guam Men's Soccer League

2012–13 Guam Men's Soccer League, officially named Budweiser Guam Men's Soccer League due to sponsorship reason, is the association football league of Guam.

Alfred Flores

Alfred San Nicolas Flores (died February 6, 2009) was a Guamanian politician, lancheru and survivor of the Japanese occupation of Guam during World War II.

Flores was just 25 years old at the time of the Japanese invasion of Guam in 1941 during World War II.

Anthony Sablan Apuron

Apuron was born in November 1, 1945 in Tamuning, Guam, the eighth of ten children of Manuel Taijito Apuron and Ana Santos Sablan.

Ari Romero

Romero enjoyed a good run in NWA, a run that saw him participate in his first tour of Japan, one of many to come, and also a tour of the Pacific Islands in Hawaii, New Zealand, Guam, Samoa, Fiji, Australia and Tonga for "High Chief" Peter Maivia.

Arthur A. Goldberg

The victims were mostly impoverished communities with large minority populations—such as the territory of Guam; East St. Louis, Illinois; East Chicago Heights, Illinois; Chester, Pennsylvania and Sac and Fox Reservation in Oklahoma.

Asia Pacific Airlines

Asia Pacific Airlines (United States), a cargo airline with its corporate headquarters in California and its flight operations based in Guam.

Benjamin Schulte

Benjamin Schulte (born 22 December 1995) is a Guamanian professional swimmer.

Broadhead catfish

As such, the fish is found in tropical Asian countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Guam and the Philippines.

Chuck Gross

He previously worked in the personnel management field with the Army and Air Force Exchange Service in Japan and Guam for eight years.

Clark Hatch

Currently there are 41 active centers in nine Asian countries plus Hawaii and Guam.

Clement Woodward Meighan

His fieldwork was widely dispersed, including stints throughout various parts of California and in Utah, Arizona, Baja California, western and central Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Chile, Guam, Nubia, and Syria.

George Kanahele

He died September 15, 2000 while teaching a seminar on Guam.

Guam at the 2011 Pacific Games

Guam competed at the 2011 Pacific Games in Nouméa, New Caledonia between August 27 and September 10, 2011, finishing 14th, with 6 silver and 5 bronze medals.

History of boxing in the Philippines

The evolution of Philippine boxing was thought to be after the Spanish-American war, where Spain ceded its colonial territories, namely Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States as agreed in the 1898 Treaty of Paris.

John Hattig

John Duane Hattig (born February 27, 1980 in Tamuning, Guam) is a former corner infielder.

Joseph M. Mendiola

As Senate President of the 15th CNMI Legislature (2006–2008), Senator Mendiola co-founded the Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus with his counterparts from Guam, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico in December 2007.

Leo Pinsky

Pinsky later served on the South Pacific island of Guam where he played baseball and famously hit two grand slams in a 8-7 win over the Navy.

Nimitz Hill

Nimitz Hill is the home of the United States Navy Commander Naval Forces Marianas located in Asan on the southern half of the island of Guam.

Pacific sheath-tailed bat

The Pacific sheath-tailed bat or Polynesian sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura semicaudata) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae found in American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Micronesia, Palau, Samoa (where it is called pe'a vai, tagiti or pe'ape'a vai), Tonga, and Vanuatu.

Philippine Collared Dove

It has also been introduced into Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, although the population on Guam has been severely reduced by introduced brown tree snakes.

Priceless the Kid

Spending most of his life moving and traveling he has also grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, New Jersey, Guam and Hawaii.

Reveille with Beverly

In his narration for the 1977 documentary film Life Goes to War, Johnny Carson remarked that while he was stationed on Guam during World War II, he had "memorized the entire score - and most of the dialogue - of Reveille with Beverly".

Royal Palm Hotel

Royal Palm Hotel, a hotel in Guam which collapsed during a 1993 earthquake, due to a contractor using inadequate amounts of reinforcing steel

Serianthes nelsonii

Serianthes nelsonii is a large tree endemic to Guam and Rota of the Mariana Islands.

Somewhere Near Japan

She and her new husband, both serious substance abusers, flew to Guam, and both the money and the drugs soon ran out.

Teresita Abundo

She was a member of the cultural and trade missions organized by the Department of Tourism that traveled to 11 states in the U.S., Berlin, Melbourne, Guam, Hong Kong and Tokyo in the 1970s.

Tommy Tanaka

Tommy Tanaka is a Republican politician from Guam, previous Speaker of the territorial Senate, and previous candidate for the position of Governor of Guam.

White-throated Ground Dove

It has become extirpated from Guam (to USA) by predation from the introduced brown tree snake Boiga irregularis.


Anthony Marais

In 1991, while living on Guam, he played bass guitar for Chamorro artist Maria Yatar.

Charles A. Lockwood

He oversaw the moving forward of the Pacific Fleet submarine bases from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Australia to places like Saipan - where a submarine tender was stationed for a period of time - Guam, the Admiralty Islands, and Subic Bay, the Philippines.

Charles Alan Pownall

When confronted, Pownall told Guam Speaker of the House Antonio Borja Won Pat to leave the matter to him.

Cinder Road

The band toured up and down the eastern seaboard from Canada to Key West and oversea trips to Southeast Asia playing shows for the Armed Forces Entertainment (AFE) network in Japan, Korea, Guam, as well as other remote areas such as Greenland and the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

Clark Air Base

During the 1970s, passengers arrived via Trans International Douglas DC-8 and Braniff International DC-8s (the Pickle and the Banana) flights from Travis AFB, California (via Honolulu and Guam).

The 747 service was taken over by Tower Air sometime in the late 1980s, and was augmented with a weekly Hawaiian Airlines L-1011 or Douglas DC-8 to Guam-Honolulu-Los Angeles.

Frank Aguon

Aguon is currently married to Jennifer Lujan Aguon, who played for the Women's Softball team won a gold medal for Guam at the 1998 Micronesian Games in Palau, Aguon has five children.

Guam Police Department

The department has jurisdiction across the entire territory, except for areas covered by the port, airport and military bases, although the Guam Police Department does have authority over military dependents on base, due to the fact that civilians cannot be charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Guam Rail

Zoologist Bob Beck, a Guam Department of Agriculture Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources wildlife supervisor, is credited with leading the efforts to capture the remaining wild Guam rails, Micronesian Kingfishers and other native birds to save them from extinction.

Guam Shipyard

Guam Shipyard is a top level soccer (football) club that currently plays in the Guam BGMSL in the United States territory of Guam.

Harvest Christian Academy

Harvest Ministries, Guam now also owns and operates KHMG radio station.

History of Guam

A subsequent run-off referendum held between Commonwealth and Statehood saw 73% of Guam voters choosing Commonwealth over Statehood (27%).

HNLMS K XIII

She made the journey alone and took a route that led by Horta, Willemstad, Mazatlán, San Francisco, Honolulu, Guam, Yap, Manila, Ambon and Burma.

Hong Kong Identity Card

Some foreign territories require Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport holders to present their HKID as well in order to benefit from a visa exemption scheme: these territories include Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and Taiwan.

Intelligence and the Japanese Civilian

The Marianas and Okinawa, pre-war Japanese possessions, had large Japanese civilian populations at the time of their occupation, whereas other islands, like Tarawa, Guam or Iwo Jima, were either uninhabited by civilians, or only by indigenous civilians.

Isnilon Totoni Hapilon

In 2002 Hapilon and four other ASG members -- Khadaffy Janjalani, Hamsiraji Marusi Sali, Aldam Tilao, and Jainal Antel Sali, Jr. -- were indicted in Guam and in the United States for their role in the 2000 Dos Palmas kidnappings of 17 Filipinos and three Americans, and the eventual beheading of one of the Americans, Guillermo Sobero.

Japanese air attacks on the Mariana Islands

Small numbers of Japanese aircraft flying from Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Truk made occasional raids on the American forces on Saipan during the fighting there, but caused little damage.

Keahiwai

Following the release of "Satisfied", they toured the pacific islands of Guam and Saipan.

Kentucky Small Business Development Center

Now, every state has an SBDC program (Texas has four and California has six) along with Guam, District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands and Samoa.

KUAM

KUAM-TV, a television station (channel 8) licensed to Agana, Guam

KUAM-LP, a low-power television station (channel 20) licensed to Tamuning, Guam

KUAM-FM, a radio station (93.9 FM) licensed to Agana, Guam

Lyncina ventriculus

This species is distributed in the eastern Indian Ocean (Malaysia, Estern Indonesia, Cocos Islands and Christmas Island), in the Central and Western Pacific Ocean (South China Sea, Taiwan, Philippines, Samar Island, Guam, Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Micronesia, New Caledonia, eastern Polynesia, Tahiti and Hawaii).

Madeleine Bordallo

In the 1950s and 1960s, Bordallo was a television presenter for KUAM-TV, the NBC affiliate that was the first television station on Guam.

Nancy L. Ward

Prior to her selection by Paulison, Ward served as the FEMA regional director for region IX (which serves AZ, CA, Guam, HI, NV, CNMI, RMI, FSM and American Samoa).

Oceania ecozone

More recently, Guam's native bird and lizard species were decimated by the introduction of the Brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) in the 1940s.

Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus

The Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus is an informal legislative organization created in 2007 by leaders of the Senates of the U.S. states of Alaska and Hawai'i and the United States territories of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas Islands.

Philippine deer

It was also introduced to Rota, Saipan, and Pohnpei but those populations did not take hold like they did in Guam.

Pimpbot

"Armed Forces Entertainment Asia/ Pacific Tour"- September 10 to 20, 2009- 8 dates including Anderson Air Force Base, Guam; Naval Base Guam; The Fuji Festival at Camp Fuji, Japan; Camp Walker, South Korea; Daegu AFB, South Korea; Yongsan Garrison, South Korea; and two dates at the Camp Kinser Festival, Camp Kinser, Japan.

Rex Sorensen

Sorensen Media Group moved into television after radio with the launch of Guam station KEQI-LP in 2004.

Rich Marotta

With the departure of Paul T. Wall back to Guam, Rich has become increasingly verbal about his liberal political views and is a supporter of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Scotty Moylan

Francis Lester "Scotty" Moylan (March 23, 1916 – August 24, 2010) was a Guamanian businessman and patriarch of the Moylan family, which includes his son, former Lieutenant Governor Kurt Moylan, and his grandsons, former Lt. Governor Kaleo Moylan and Guam's first elected attorney general, Douglas Moylan.

Station CAST

Other Stations (on Guam, in Puget Sound on Bainbridge Island, Guam, etc.) were tasked and staffed for signals interception and traffic analysis.

Station HYPO

Other Navy crypto stations, including Guam, Puget Sound, Bainbridge Island were tasked and staffed for signals interception and traffic analysis.

Tommy Tanaka

In June, 2006, the USDOJ's Office of the Inspector General released their final report on their investigation into allegations made by previous interim U.S. Attorney for Guam Frederick Black that Tanaka's nephew Leonardo Rapadas replaced Black in his position as U.S. Attorney after Black called for an investigation into Washington-based lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

UnderWater World Guam

The gallery exhibits at UnderWater World Guam are home to animals from around the world, including Chambered Nautilus, Japanese spider crab, Corals, and a unique exhibit featuring fish that change gender.