{"id":25929,"date":"2024-08-19T06:35:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T01:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25929"},"modified":"2025-04-07T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:45:09","slug":"guam-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/guam-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Guam Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Guam Island:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the largest, most populous, and southernmost of the <strong>Mariana Islands in the Northern Pacific Ocean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is an island territory of <strong>the United States of America.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was a Spanish colony till 1898, then became a US territory after the Spanish-American War.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate:<\/strong> has a pleasant tropical climate tempered by the northeast trade winds and the north equatorial ocean current that flows west across the Pacific.<\/li>\n<li>Native Guamanians, <strong>ethnically called Chamorros<\/strong>, are of basically Malayo-Indonesian descent with a considerable admixture of Spanish, Filipino, Mexican, and other European and Asian ancestries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital:<\/strong> The capital city is <strong>Hagatna.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about INS Shivalik<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the first stealth <strong>multi-role frigates<\/strong> built for the Indian Navy.<\/li>\n<li>It is built at the Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL), located in Mumbai.<\/li>\n<li>It was commissioned into the Indian Navy on April 29, 2010.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Maximum Speed: 32 knots (59 km\/h)<\/li>\n<li>It features improved stealth and land-attacking features over the preceding Talwar-class frigates.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is also the first Indian Navy ship to use <strong>the CODOG propulsion system<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is equipped with a mix of Russian, Indian, and <strong>Western weapon systems.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Ocean currents?<\/h3>\n<p>These are horizontal flow of a mass of waters in a fairly defined direction over great distances. They are like stream of water (like rivers) flowing through the main body of the ocean in a regular pattern. Ocean currents (Avg speed 3.2 km to 10 kmph) with higher speed are called streams and currents with lower speed are called drifts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Visakhapatnam\/ins-shivalik-reaches-guam-an-island-territory-of-the-us\/article68529200.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">INS Shivalik reaches Guam, an island territory of the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guam Island is the largest, most populous, and southernmost of the Mariana Islands in the Northern Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}