Sarigan

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Sarigan in Northern Mariana Islands is the result of a Holocene Era stratovolcano with no known historic eruptions, however a swarm of volcano-tectonic earthquakes took place here in the summer of 2005. The island is 95 miles (153 km) north of Saipan and has a land area of 4.966 km² (1.92 sq mi). Politically it is a part of the Northern Islands Municipality. It was formerly inhabited but as of the 2000 census had no population. Landing on Sarigan is difficult due to perpendicular cliffs surrounding the island. It has many ravines and valleys with dense tropical vegetation.

From 1900 until 1945 Sarigan had a Chamorro population that worked on copra production. Today the island is a nature preserve and in the mid-1990's a project was launched to rid Sarigan of its population of feral animals; today only a few cats remain. Sarigan has been proposed as a site for relocation of endangered birds from Guam and Saipan.

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• Sarigan: Blocks 1059 and 1994, Block Group 1, Census Tract 9501, Northern Islands Municipality, United States Census Bureau

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