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Book cover of Our Northern Islands: The first expedition to the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument

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Our Northern Islands is a first person telling of the first expedition to the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument.

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Walt Goodridge

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It is the dream of many indigenous residents of Saipan, Tinian, and Rota to visit—at least once during a lifetime—the remote "northern islands" of the 400-mile archipelago that comprises the Mariana Islands. High school student Dennis Chan fulfilled that dream as his prize for winning an essay contest. The contest—and the winner's participation in a week-long, first-of-its-kind ocean expedition—was timed to coincide with the Bush administration's designation of a 95,000sqare mile swath of the Western Pacific Ocean as an official Marine National Monument. Dennis, with the help of activist and blogger Angelo Villagomez, chronicled and published Our Northern Islands,…

From Walt's list on The best books about life on Saipan, a little-known US territory in the Pacific...and history's forgotten footnote.