Guam Cable Station, the Glossary
The Guam Cable Station is where the United States territory of Guam was first connected via modern telecommunications to the rest of the world.[1]
Table of Contents
12 relations: Battle of Guam (1941), Battle of Guam (1944), Commercial Pacific Cable Company, Contiguous United States, Guam, Hawaii, National Register of Historic Places listings in Guam, Naval Base Guam, Sånta Rita-Sumai, Guam, Sumay, Guam, World War II, Yap.
- 1903 establishments in Guam
- Communications in Guam
- Telecommunications buildings on the National Register of Historic Places
- Telegraph stations
- World War II on the National Register of Historic Places in Guam
Battle of Guam (1941)
The Battle of Guam was an engagement during the Pacific War in World War II, and took place from 8 December to 10 December 1941 on Guam in the Mariana Islands between Japan and the United States.
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Battle of Guam (1944)
The Battle of Guam (21 July–10 August 1944) was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands captured by the Japanese from the United States in the First Battle of Guam in 1941 during the Pacific campaign of World War II.
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Commercial Pacific Cable Company
Commercial Pacific Cable Company was founded in 1901, and ceased operations in October 1951. Guam Cable Station and Commercial Pacific Cable Company are Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean.
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Contiguous United States
The contiguous United States (officially the conterminous United States) consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the District of Columbia of the United States of America in central North America.
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Guam
Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Guam
This is a list of the buildings, sites, districts, and objects listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Guam.
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Naval Base Guam
Naval Base Guam is a strategic U.S. naval base located on Apra Harbor and occupying the Orote Peninsula.
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Sånta Rita-Sumai, Guam
Sånta Rita-Sumai, formerly Santa Rita and encompassing the former municipality of Sumay, is a village located on the southwest coast of the United States territory of Guam with hills overlooking Apra Harbor.
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Sumay, Guam
Sumay, also Sumai, was a village on the United States territory of Guam.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yap
Yap (Waqab, sometimes written as, or) traditionally refers to an island group located in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, a part of Yap State.
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See also
1903 establishments in Guam
- Guam Cable Station
Communications in Guam
- .gu
- Area code 671
- Communications in Guam
- GTA Teleguam
- Guam Cable Station
- Postage stamps and postal history of Guam
- Zen Habits
Telecommunications buildings on the National Register of Historic Places
- 30 Rockefeller Plaza
- AT&T Building (Kingman, Arizona)
- American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Building (Davenport, Iowa)
- American Telephone and Telegraph Company Building (Denmark, South Carolina)
- Barclay–Vesey Building
- Bell Laboratories Building
- Bell Telephone Building (St. Louis, Missouri)
- Bell Telephone Company Building (Philadelphia)
- Cable House and Station
- Central New York Telephone and Telegraph Building
- Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Building
- Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse and Repair Facility
- Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, Old Main Building
- Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company Building
- Detroit–Columbia Central Office Building
- Fire Alarm, Telegraph and Police Signaling Building
- French Cable Hut
- Government Cable Office
- Guam Cable Station
- Interior Telephone Company Building
- KPRK
- Marconi Wireless Station Site (South Wellfleet, Massachusetts)
- Marconi–RCA Wireless Receiving Station
- Marconi-RCA Bolinas Transmitting Station
- Michigan Bell and Western Electric Warehouse
- Mountain States Telephone Building
- Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company Building (Miles City, Montana)
- New England Telephone Building
- New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building
- Northwestern Bell Telephone Company Regional Headquarters
- Oficina de Telégrafo y Teléfono
- Providence Telephone Building
- Skattaboe Block
- Southern Bell Telephone Company Building
- Southern New England Telephone Company Administration Building
- Southern New England Telephone Company Building
- Telephone Co. Building (Grand Forks, North Dakota)
- Telephone Exchange Building (Norwich, Connecticut)
- Telephone Factory Lofts
- Trans-Canyon Telephone Line, Grand Canyon National Park
- Union Electric Telephone & Telegraph
- Vancouver Telephone Building
- Voice of America Bethany Relay Station
- Volta Laboratory and Bureau
- WCAU
- WFIL
- Webster Telephone Exchange Building
- Western Union Telegraph Building, Kansas City, Missouri
Telegraph stations
- Admiralty House, Mount Pearl
- Beacon Hill, West Sussex
- Castel Sant'Angelo (Licata)
- Guam Cable Station
- Għargħur Semaphore Tower
- Għaxaq Semaphore Tower
- List of telegraph stations
- Ridley Hall, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Ta' Kenuna Tower
World War II on the National Register of Historic Places in Guam
- Agana-Hagatna Pillbox
- Agat Invasion Beach
- Agat World War II Amtrac
- Aratama Maru
- As Sombreru Pillboxes
- Asan Invasion Beach
- Asan Ridge Battle Area
- Dungcas Beach Defense Guns
- Faha Massacre Site
- Gongna Beach defenses
- Guam Cable Station
- Ha. 62-76 Japanese Midget Attack Submarine
- Hill 40
- Ilik River Fortification I
- Ilik River Fortification II
- Inarajan Pillbox
- Ipao Pillbox I
- Light Model Tank No. 95 (Guam)
- Malesso Japanese Rice Mill
- Malessu' Pillbox
- Mana Pillbox
- Mataguac Hill Command Post
- Matgue River Valley Battle Area
- Orote Field
- Pago Bay Japanese pillboxes
- Piti Guns
- Plaza de España (Hagåtña)
- San Vitores Beach Japanese Fortification
- Talofofo Pillbox
- Tinta Massacre Site
- Tokai Maru
- Tokcha' Pillbox
- War in the Pacific National Historical Park
- Yokoi's Cave
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guam_Cable_Station
Also known as Cable Station Ruins.