Umatac

Umatac is the bay in the southwest where Magellan is held to have landed in 1521, and the village marks it every March with a re-enactment and a week of fiesta. Fort Nuestra Señora de la Soledad stands on the headland above, a Spanish gun position of coral stone with the best view on the coast, and two more forts lie in ruins nearby. The village itself is a row of houses, a church and a bridge around a small dark sand beach. Mount Lamlam rises behind it, the highest point of Guam and, measured from the trench floor offshore, among the tallest on earth.