Q. Guam Island, recently seen in the news, is located in which ocean?
Answer:
Pacific Ocean
Notes: INS Shivalik recently arrived in Guam for an operational turnaround after participating in RIMPAC 2024, the world’s largest multinational maritime exercise. Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands in the Northern Pacific Ocean and is a US territory. It was a Spanish colony until 1898, becoming a US territory after the Spanish-American War. Guam has a tropical climate with trade winds and equatorial currents. The native Chamorros are of Malayo-Indonesian descent with influences from Spanish, Filipino, Mexican, and other ancestries. The capital of Guam is Hagatna.