Saipan

 Saipan  : NORTHERN MARIANA
 What a great card .!!. a big surpruse !! Thank you Arnold for yet another great card from Saipan in The Morthern Mariana Isalnds   an American protectorate..  This is a great addition to my Maps of The World Series. love them as they have so much information. Thank you  mate and thank you for thinking of me  with this card 
 Posted Saipan 29 November 2022 :Arrived Sydney 20 January 2023 : Traveled 52 days,
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Saipan

 Saipan : NORTHERN MARIANAS

 wow !!   Big surprise card  Thank you so much Arnold.  This is a card that one would find as an unusual destination.  You certainly get about Arnold I I thank you very much fr thinking of me..!
 Posted Saipan nth Marianas 01 January 2022 : Arrived Sydney 04 February : Traveled 32 days  .
Thhank you again Arnold. 

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS  ( Saipan )
 Commonwealth of The Northern Mariana Islands :
  AREA : 464  M2
  POPULATION  55,144
  CAPITAL CITY :  Saipan.

 UNIQUE : Settlement :  The Mariana Islands were the first Islands that were settled by humans in remote Oceania and Internationally it is also the first and the longest and first of the ocean cruising Australasian peoples into remote Oceania ,and is seperate from the later polynesian settlementof the remaote Oceania 

FAMOUS :  (Ferdinand Magellan ):  The Potugese  navigator sailing under the Spanish flag  arrived in 1521  and they were the first Europeans to arrive in The Mariana Islands.

CORDINATES :for the Northern Mariana Islands are : 17.0000 N 146.0000

HISTORY : 1975-1978  The Federal law ( The Government) making The CNM! a US Territory passed in 1975. The CNMI adopted the constitution in 1977.and its first constitution ammendment took office in 1978.

US. Saipan

Saipan : USA.


Thank you Karen for this great view from Saipan..You mention that it is famous for its diving and snorkelling..I can see why..Bird Island Lookout in this scene provides a spectacular view Bird Island and of the surrounding reef..