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CHamoru/Chamorro Seagrass Fishing Nets
Brederode
Dutch Traders
Trading
Early European Observations of CHamorus/Chamorros
Galleon
Galleon: Concepción
Manila Galleon
Galleon: San Pablo
Galleon: Trinidad
Galleon: Trinidad
Victoria
Galleon: Victoria
Malia presentation on La Nao de China or the Manila Galleon Trade.
La Nao de China: The Spanish Treasure Fleet System
Manila Galleon Crew Members
Manila Galleon Crew Members
Mexico
Manila Galleon Trade Route-La Nao de China: A Legacy in the Marianas
A map of the Mariana Islands by P. Alonso Lopez. Most Guam's forts were built along the central to south western coastlines: 6 in Hagåtña, 4 in Humåtak/Umatac, 3 in Apra Harbor and 1 unnamed battery in Malesso’/Merizo.
La Nao de China: The Spanish Treasure Fleet SystemMapping the Pacific
Galleon Trade
Navigation and Cargo of the Manila Galleons
Spanish-American coins used during the same period of the Chilean one peso and Peruvian one sol.
Spanish Coinage in Guam
A map of the Mariana Islands by P. Alonso Lopez. Most Guam's forts were built along the central to south western coastlines: 6 in Hagåtña, 4 in Humåtak/Umatac, 3 in Apra Harbor and 1 unnamed battery in Malesso’/Merizo.
Stops Along the Manila Galleon Trade Route
Michell Map
The Matao Iron Trade Part 1: Contact and Commerce
Trading in the Mariana Islands. Theodore de Bry – 1602. Bry's collection of Voyage with Explorer Van Noort. Illustration courtesy of the Guam Public Library System.
The Matao Iron Trade Part 2: Galleon Trading and Repatriation
Marshalls Canoe
The Matao Iron Trade Part 3: Appropriation and Entanglement
Tordesillas detail
Treaty of Tordesillas
King of Spain and Emperor Charles V
Treaty of Zaragoza
Melanesia, 1836
Trepang Trade
Humpback
Whaling Influence in the Marianas

e-Publications

Illustration from Remarks on a Voyage in 1801 to the Island of Guam by William Haswell, First Officer of the Barque “Lydia.”
Island of Guam by William Haswell
Scientific Studies - agana house chores
Joseph Paul Gaimard's 1819 CHamoru/Chamorro Vocabulary

Biographies

Latte Structure illustrated by E. Oliver from Freycinet’s collection, 1824.
Adventurer: Oliver van Noort
Adventurer: Thomas Cavendish
Adventurer: Thomas Cavendish
Hayes
Adventurer: William "Bully" Hayes
Captain William Dampier
Adventurer: William Dampier
Woodes
Adventurer: Woodes Rogers
Galleon: Trinidad
Adventurers: Beachcombers
The Success, a pirate ship under the direction of John Clipperton, got stuck in Umatac Bay in 1788 after charging the shore. Spanish soldiers fired upon them for three days from two forts, as shown in this illustration. John Lodge
Adventurers: John Clipperton and George Shelvocke
Trading
Adventurers: John Eaton and William Cowley
Buccaneer
Adventurers: Pirates on Guam
Urdaneta
Andres de Urdaneta
Bartola Garrido and Chamorros of Yap.
Bartola Garrido
Ferdinand
Ferdinand Magellan
French explorer Dumont d’Urville lead two French Navy expeditions into Oceania, visiting Guam twice. Illustration courtesy of the Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC), University of Guam. MC31 4
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville
Louis Claude de Freycinet
Louis Claude de Freycinet
de torres
Luís de Torres
Legazpi
Miguel López de Legazpi
Mexico
Pedro Sanchez Pericón
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