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Aguijan is a small bean-shaped coral
Coral

Corals are marine organisms from the class Anthozoa and exist as small sea anemone?like polyps, typically in colonies of many identical individuals....
line island in the Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands

The Northern Mariana Islands , officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , is a commonwealth in political union with the United States, occupying a strategic region of the western Pacific Ocean....
 chain situated 8 km southwest of Tinian
Tinian

Tinian is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands . It is perhaps best known for being the base from which the United States atomic bomb attacks on Japan during World War II were launched....
, from which it is separated by the Tinian Channel
Tinian Channel

The Tinian Channel is an eight kilometre-wide channel in the Northern Mariana Islands. It lies to the south of the island of Tinian, separating it from the island of Aguijan. Together, the two islands form the Tinian Municipality....
. It is only 7.09 kmē (2.738 sq mi) in size and is nicknamed Goat Island due to the large number of feral
Feral

A feral organism is one that has escaped from domestication and returned, partly or wholly, to its wildlife state. The introduction of feral animals or plants, like any introduced species, can disrupt ecosystems and may, in some cases, contribute to extinction of indigenous species....
 goats present there.






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Aguijan is a small bean-shaped coral
Coral

Corals are marine organisms from the class Anthozoa and exist as small sea anemone?like polyps, typically in colonies of many identical individuals....
line island in the Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands

The Northern Mariana Islands , officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , is a commonwealth in political union with the United States, occupying a strategic region of the western Pacific Ocean....
 chain situated 8 km southwest of Tinian
Tinian

Tinian is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands . It is perhaps best known for being the base from which the United States atomic bomb attacks on Japan during World War II were launched....
, from which it is separated by the Tinian Channel
Tinian Channel

The Tinian Channel is an eight kilometre-wide channel in the Northern Mariana Islands. It lies to the south of the island of Tinian, separating it from the island of Aguijan. Together, the two islands form the Tinian Municipality....
. It is only 7.09 kmē (2.738 sq mi) in size and is nicknamed Goat Island due to the large number of feral
Feral

A feral organism is one that has escaped from domestication and returned, partly or wholly, to its wildlife state. The introduction of feral animals or plants, like any introduced species, can disrupt ecosystems and may, in some cases, contribute to extinction of indigenous species....
 goats present there. Much of the native vegetation on Aguijan has been destroyed by goats.

Aguijan is uninhabited and is seldom visited because it is surrounded by sheer steep cliffs. However, a 2002 survey of the island did find a handful of native species there, including the Mariana Fruit Bat
Mariana Fruit Bat

The Mariana Fruit Bat , also known as the Mariana flying fox, and the fanihi in Chamorro language is a fruit bat that is found only on Guam and the other Mariana Islands....
, the Polynesian sheath-tailed bat and the Micronesian megapode
Micronesian Scrubfowl

The Micronesian Scrubfowl or Micronesian Megapode, Megapodius laperouse, is an endangered megapode which inhabits islands of the Western Pacific Ocean....
 Megapodius laperouse.

During World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, the Japanese
Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan was a Japanese political entity that existed during the period from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until its defeat in World War II in 1945....
 maintained a garrison on Aguijan. This garrison is noteworthy because of its surrender to U.S. forces September 4, 1945, two days after the surrender on the USS Missouri (BB-63)
USS Missouri (BB-63)

USS Missouri is a United States Navy Iowa class battleship, and was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S....
. The surrender is unique because it was the only surrender hosted by a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter, USCG 83434. A US Navy admiral received the surrender of a Japanese Imperial Army second lieutenant.

Aguijan and neighboring Tinian
Tinian

Tinian is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands . It is perhaps best known for being the base from which the United States atomic bomb attacks on Japan during World War II were launched....
 Island together form Tinian Municipality
Tinian Municipality

Tinian Municipality is one of the four constituent municipalities of the Northern Mariana Islands. It consists of the islands of Tinian and Aguijan and their offshore islets....
, one of the four main political divisions that comprise the Northern Marianas.