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Angaur

Angaur is a small island in the south of Palau in the western Pacific. Under German rule phosphate was mined there from 1909, a business continued by the Japanese after they seized the islands in 1914. In 1944 American forces captured it in a hard-fought battle during the campaign for the Palau Islands.

Angaur
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German New Guinea

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Angaur. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/angaur
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