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The Mariana Islands ( / ˌmæriˈɑːnə / MARR-ee-AH-nə; Chamorro: Manislan Mariånas ), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fourteen [1] longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th ...
Marana was named for the Spanish word maraña ("thicket") by 19th-century railroad workers who had to clear a line through the area. In 2007, Marana began hosting the PGA Tour's WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (now the WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship). Held in late February, the event included the world's top 64 professional golfers.
The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2,550 km (1,580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) in width. The maximum known depth is 10,984 ± 25 metres (36,037 ± 82 ft ...
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands [b] ( CNMI; Chamorro: Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; Carolinian: Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas ), is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting of 14 islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean ...
A 1740 map of Paris. Ortelius World Map, 1570. Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time. In its modern form, it is a synthesizing discipline which shares both topical and methodological similarities with history, anthropology, ecology, geology, environmental studies, literary studies, and other fields.
Tucson. The Tortolita Mountains are a modest mountain range northwest of Tucson, Arizona, USA, at the northern boundaries of Oro Valley and Marana, two suburbs of Tucson. Peak elevation is 4,696 feet (1,431 m). [1] Much of the mountain range is protected within the Tortolita Mountain Park, established in 1986 by Pima County, which plans to ...
In more recent developments, geography has become a distinct academic discipline. 'Geography' derives from the Greek γεωγραφία – geographia, [1] literally "Earth-writing", that is, description or writing about the Earth. The first person to use the word geography was Eratosthenes (276–194 BC).
The Northern Mariana Islands had the lowest male to female sex ratio in the world: 76 men to every 100 women, due to a large number of female foreign workers, especially in the garment industry. In the early 2000s the began shutting down and by 2009 they were all closed, and the imported workers usually returned home.