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- @node Header (Jarvis Island)
- @section Header (Jarvis Island)
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- Affiliation:
- (territory of the US)
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- @node Geography (Jarvis Island)
- @section Geography (Jarvis Island)
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- @display
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- Location:
- in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,090 km south of Honolulu, just south of the
- Equator, about halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands
- Map references:
- Oceania
- Area:
- total area:
- 4.5 km2
- land area:
- 4.5 km2
- comparative area:
- about 7.5 times the size of the Mall in Washington, DC
- Land boundaries:
- 0 km
- Coastline:
- 8 km
- Maritime claims:
- contiguous zone:
- 24 nm
- continental shelf:
- 200 m or depth of exploitation
- exclusive economic zone:
- 200 nm
- territorial sea:
- 12 nm
- International disputes:
- none
- Climate:
- tropical; scant rainfall, constant wind, burning sun
- Terrain:
- sandy, coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
- Natural resources:
- guano (deposits worked until late 1800s)
- Land use:
- arable land:
- 0%
- permanent crops:
- 0%
- meadows and pastures:
- 0%
- forest and woodland: 0%
- other:
- 100%
- Irrigated land:
- 0 km2
- Environment:
- sparse bunch grass, prostrate vines, and low-growing shrubs; lacks fresh
- water; primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for seabirds,
- shorebirds, and marine wildlife; feral cats
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- @node People (Jarvis Island)
- @section People (Jarvis Island)
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- @display
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- Population:
- uninhabited; note - Millersville settlement on western side of island
- occasionally used as a weather station from 1935 until World War II, when it
- was abandoned; reoccupied in 1957 during the International Geophysical Year
- by scientists who left in 1958; public entry is by special-use permit only
- and generally restricted to scientists and educators
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- @node Government (Jarvis Island)
- @section Government (Jarvis Island)
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- @display
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- Names:
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Jarvis Island
- Digraph:
- DQ
- Type:
- unincorporated territory of the US administered by the Fish and Wildlife
- Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National
- Wildlife Refuge System
- Capital:
- none; administered from Washington, DC
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- @node Economy (Jarvis Island)
- @section Economy (Jarvis Island)
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- @display
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- Overview:
- no economic activity
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- @node Communications (Jarvis Island)
- @section Communications (Jarvis Island)
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- @display
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- Ports:
- none; offshore anchorage only - one boat landing area in the middle of the
- west coast and another near the southwest corner of the island
- Note:
- there is a day beacon near the middle of the west coast
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- @node Defense Forces (Jarvis Island)
- @section Defense Forces (Jarvis Island)
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- @display
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- defense is the responsibility of the US; visited annually by the US Coast
- Guard
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