Fact: Guam's highest point, Mount Lamlam, reaches only 406 meters above sea level—barely taller than New York City’s One World Trade Center.
Spain ceded Guam to the US in 1898. Captured by the Japanese in 1941, it was retaken by the US three years later. The military installations onthe island are some of the most strategically important US bases in the Pacific; they also constitute the island’s most important source of income and economic stability.