Agrihan
Sign in to saveAgrihan (also spelled Agrigan) is an island in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The island has mostly been uninhabited, but had 4 permanent residents in the 2020 U.S. census. Agrihan is located to the north of Pagan.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Agrigan
- Islands.image_name
- AgrihanNASA.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- NASA Space Shuttle image of Agrihan
- Islands.map_image
- Mariana Islands - Agrihan.PNG
- Islands.location
- Pacific Ocean
- Islands.archipelago
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Islands.area_km2
- 44.05
- Islands.length_km
- 9
- Islands.width_km
- 6
- Islands.highest_mount
- Mount Agrihan
- Islands.elevation_m
- 965
- Islands.country
- United States
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- Commonwealth
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Islands.population
- 4
- Islands.population_as_of
- 2020
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Agrihan (also spelled Agrigan) is an island in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The island has mostly been uninhabited, but had 4 permanent residents in the 2020 U.S. census. Agrihan is located to the north of Pagan.
==History == thumb|left|300px| Clouds drape the flat-topped summit of Agrihan, the highest of the Marianas arc volcanoes, in this view from the south. The first European to discover the island was on June 11, 1522. He named it "Cyco" or "La Griega" (The Greek in Spanish). Espinosa was on the Trinidad as part of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, and called on the island while attempting to cross the Pacific Ocean to Mexico. The resident Chamorros were hostile and he could not anchor, but kidnapped an islander for information. The Spanish missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores visited Agrihan in 1669 calling it "San Francisco Javier". In 1695, the natives were forcibly removed to Saipan, and three years later to Guam.