Alamagan

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Alamagan is a small, sparsely inhabited volcanic island in the Northern Mariana Islands chain in the western Pacific Ocean.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Alamagan canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf island
volcanic island
administeredBy Northern Islands Municipality
archipelago Mariana Islands
climate tropical
climateCharacteristic high rainfall
subject to typhoons
country United States of America
surface form: United States
countrySubdivision Northern Islands Municipality
elevation 744 m
geologicalOrigin volcanic
governingBody Government of the Northern Mariana Islands
surface form: Government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
hasFeature central volcanic cone
deep radial valleys
steep coastal cliffs
hasInfrastructure small boat landing
hasLandUse coconut plantations
hasNearbyWaterBody Philippine Sea
hasSettlementPattern periodically evacuated due to natural hazards
hazard typhoons
volcanic activity
highestPoint Mount Alamagan
ISO3166-2 MP (for Northern Mariana Islands)
languageUsed Carolinian
Chamorro
English
lastEruptionCentury 20th century
locatedIn Micronesia
western Pacific Ocean
locatedNorthOf Saipan
locatedSouthOf Pagan
ocean Pacific Ocean
partOf Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands
politicalStatus Northern Mariana Islands
surface form: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
population very small and sporadic
populationCharacteristic sparsely inhabited
primaryEconomicActivity small-scale fishing
subsistence agriculture
region western Pacific Ocean
surface form: western Pacific
sovereignState United States of America
surface form: United States
tectonicSetting subduction zone
timezone UTC+10
volcanicArc Mariana Island Arc
surface form: Mariana Arc
volcanoType stratovolcano

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mariana Island Arc contains Alamagan
Agrihan locatedNorthOf Alamagan
Guguan locatedSouthOf Alamagan
Mariana Islands contains Alamagan