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Navassa Island (La Navase in French, Lanavaz in Haitian Kreyòl) is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea. The government of the United States claims the island as an unincorporated territory of the United States, part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, and it is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. However, California businessman Bill Warren has advanced a claim against the island (using the Guano Islands Act), and it is also claimed by Haiti.
Geography
Navassa Island is about two square miles (5.2 km²). It is located in a strategic location 160 km (90 nautical miles) south of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, about one-fourth of the way from Haiti to Jamaica in the Jamaica Channel. It reaches an elevation of 77 m at an unnamed peak 100 m south of the lighthouse, Navassa Island Light. This location is 400 m from the southwestern coast or 600 m east of Lulu Bay. Transient Haitian fishermen and others camp on the island. The island's latitude and longitude is .
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Dependent Areas :: United States
Why the hell did the Virgin Islands get a quarter? What's next, a Navassa Island quarter?
GentlemanBrown (Nick Brown) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:39:54 -0000
Why the hell did the Virgin Islands get a quarter? What's next, a Navassa Island quarter?
Center for Marine Conservation - Navassa - Offers information about the wildlife, key habitats, threats and ways to help.
CIA - The World Factbook: Navassa Island - Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.
Haiti: Navassa Island - A number of files dealing with Haiti's claim to the island.
Navassa Island - Brief introduction to the island including photographic tour and history.
Navassa Island - Includes information about the island's early history and guano mining, as well as the website owner's attempts to gain ownership of the island.
Meta Description: [ Navassa Island: guano mining ]
Navassa Island (U.S. Minor Outlying Islands) - Unofficial flag of Navassa designed by Skip Wheeler.
Navassa Island: A Photographic Tour - Several thematic photographic tours compiled from photographs taken by geologists surveying the island.
Meta Description: [ Several thematic photographic tours of the Caribbean island of Navassa, compiled from photographs taken by USGS geologists Dr. Robert Halley and Don Hickey during their trip to the island as part of the Caribbean Quest expedition sponsored by the Discovery Channel. ]
Navassa Remote Sensing Experiment (NASA-GSFC) - Gives details about a mapping experiment using satellite data.
Meta Description: [ The website for the Navassa Island Remote Sensing Experiment ]
Poop Dreams - Article from Baltimore City Paper about the 19th-century guano mining and recent attempts to claim ownership of the island under the Guano Act.
University of Texas Libraries - Navassa Island Maps - Country, city and thematic maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, along with links to maps on other web sites.
Wikipedia - Navassa Island - Hyperlinked encyclopedia article covers the country's history, government and politics, geography, economy, demographics, language and culture.
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