I spent most of my adult life (1979 through 2005) living and working on the island of Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Thanks to some recently uploaded high-res images you can now see Saipan in all its beauty on Google Earth:
For more about Saipan, including a Google Earth KMZ file, look here:
Saipan
(KMZ file is under "Where the Heck is Saipan?")