Tinian is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Together with uninhabited neighboring Aguiguan, it forms Tinian Municipality, one of the four constitu
Tinian Shinto shrine.
U.S. Marines during the Battle of Tinian in 1944.
West Field, Tinian, July 8, 1945
Tinian Dynasty Hotel lobby in 2011, it operated from 1998 to 2015
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The Mariana Islands, also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the north-western Pacif
Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands
…islands and deeper Pacific section. Location within Pacific Ocean Interactive map of Tinian Geography Location Pacific Ocean Coordinates Archipelago Marianas Area 101.22 km2 (39.08 sq mi) Highest elevation 187 m (614 ft) Highest point Mount Kastiyu Administration United States Commonwealth Northern Mariana…
Tropical dry forest on Saipan
Ruins of Guma Taga on Tinian. The pillars/columns are called latte (pronounced læ'di) stones, a common architectural element of prehistoric structures in the Mariana Islands, upon which elevated buildings were built. Earthquakes had toppled the other latte at this site by the time this photo was taken; an earthquake in 1902 toppled the one seen on the left, and today only the one on the right remains standing.
Reception of the Manila Galleon by the Chamorro in the Ladrones Islands, c. 1590 Boxer Codex
A stamp from the Marianas' late Spanish colonial period, 1898–1899