Anatahan Coast

Anatahan is a volcanic island in the Northern Mariana Islands, and its coast faces the open Pacific. The Spanish navigator Bernardo de la Torre first charted it in October 1543, while sailing from Sarangani back toward New Spain aboard the carrack San Juan de Letrán. Guguan, a neighbouring island a short distance to the north, was charted in 1668 by the Spanish missionary Diego Luis de Sanvitores as San Felipe, and it was never colonized.