Guam Island:
INS Shivalik reached Guam for an Operational Turnaround on successful completion of the recently concluded world’s largest Multinational Maritime Exercise RIMPAC 2024.
- Guam Island is the largest, most populous, and southernmost of the Mariana Islands in the Northern Pacific Ocean.
- It is an island territory of the United States of America.
- It was a Spanish colony till 1898, then became a US territory after the Spanish-American War.
- Climate has a pleasant tropical climate tempered by the northeast trade winds and the north equatorial ocean current that flows west across the Pacific.
- Native Guamanians, ethnically called Chamorros, are of basically Malayo-Indonesian descent with a considerable admixture of Spanish, Filipino, Mexican, and other European and Asian ancestries.
- INS Shivalik is the first stealth multi-role frigatesbuilt for the Indian Navy.
- It is built at the Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL), located in Mumbai.
- It was commissioned into the Indian Navy on April 29, 2010.
