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Pagan (island)
Pagan is a volcanic island in the Mariana Islands archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, belonging to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Formerly inhabited, the inhabitants were evacuated due to volcanic eruptions in 1981.
==Geography==
Pagan is located about north of Saipan, the main island of the Northern Mariana Islands. With an area of , it is the fourth largest island of the Northern Marianas.
The island is a double island consisting of two stratovolcanoes joined by a narrow strip of land with a width of only . The southern volcano , is high with a caldera approximately in diameter, consisting of four craters joined together. Although several fumaroles were active in 1992, the southern volcano last erupted in 1864. The northern volcano, also known as, ''Mount Pagan'', , has a height of . The volcano is in the center of a caldera with a diameter of approximately , and eruptions have been documented in the 1820s, 1872-1873, and 1925.
Pagan has two large lakes. Laguna Sanhalom (also Inner Lake) had an area of and depth of in the 1970s. Laguna Sanhiyon (also Laguna Lake) on the west coast of the northern island had an area of and depth of . Both lakes contain brackish water.〔Pacific Planning and Design Consultants: (''Physical Development Master Plan for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.'' ) Volume V, Pagan, Government Printing Office, January 1978, S. 10.〕
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