Jarvis Island is an uninhabited 4.5 square kilometer island located at in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to the Cook Islands. It is an unincorporated territory of the United States, part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, administered from Washington, D.C. by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system.

The island was discovered on August 21, 1821 by the British ship Eliza Francis, (or Eliza Frances, owned by Edward, Thomas, and William Jarvis; see an 1833 legal proceeding) and named by her commander, one Captain Brown. The uninhabited island was claimed for the U.S.A. in March 1857 and formally annexed by the U.S. on 27 February 1858, but abandoned in 1879 after tons of guano had been removed.

The UK annexed the island on 3 June 1889, but never carried out plans for further exploitation. The guano deposits were mined until the late 1800s.

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Happy New Year #2010: American Samoa, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, Niue, Samoa
yuri_alvarez (Yuri Alvarez) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:48:30 -0000
Happy New Year #2010: American Samoa, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, Niue, Samoa
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matt_perez (Matt Perez) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:00:37 -0000
GMT-11: Have a Great 2010! American Samoa, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Midway lslands, Niue http://j.mp/5jsedQ
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cartesiancogito (Nick Harlow) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:56:06 -0000
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