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Insular areas of the United States

  • Marshall IslandsRadiocarbon dating suggests that Bikini Atoll may have been inhabited as early as 1200 BCE. Archaeological digs on other atolls found evidence of human…
  • American SamoaAmerican Samoa sits fourteen degrees below the equator, making it the southernmost territory of the United States. The land area covers slightly more than…
  • Federated States of MicronesiaThe Federated States of Micronesia stretches across 2,900 kilometers of the western Pacific Ocean. This island nation comprises 607 individual islands and…
  • GuamAround 1500 to 1400 BC, migrants from the Philippines arrived on Guam and began a long journey of settlement. These people were part of the Austronesian…
  • United States Virgin IslandsChristopher Columbus sighted the islands on his second voyage in 1493. He named them Santa Úrsula y las Once Mil Vírgenes after a legend about Saint Ursula…
  • Midway AtollRoughly 28 million years ago, the seabed beneath what is now Midway Atoll sat directly over a volcanic hotspot. This same geological feature currently forms…
  • Puerto RicoIn 1493, Christopher Columbus arrived on the island he named San Juan Bautista. The Taíno people had already lived there for centuries before his arrival.