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68 lines
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JARVIS ISLAND
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(territory of the US)
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GEOGRAPHY
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Total area: 4.5 km2; land area: 4.5 km2
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Comparative area: about 7.5 times the size of The Mall in
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Washington, DC
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Land boundaries: none
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Coastline: 8 km
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Maritime claims:
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Contiguous zone: 12 nm;
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Continental shelf: 200 m (depth);
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Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;
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Territorial sea: 12 nm
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Climate: tropical; scant rainfall, constant wind, burning sun
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Terrain: sandy, coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
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Natural resources: guano (deposits worked until late 1800s)
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Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
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0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%
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Environment: sparse bunch grass, prostrate vines, and low-growing
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shrubs; lacks fresh water; primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging
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habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine wildlife; feral cats
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Note: 2,090 km south of Honolulu in the South Pacific Ocean, just
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south of the Equator, about halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands
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PEOPLE
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Population: uninhabited
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Note: Millersville settlement on western side of island
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occasionally used as a weather station from 1935 until World War II, when
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it was abandoned; reoccupied in 1957 during the International Geophysical
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Year by scientists who left in 1958; public entry is by special-use
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permit only and generally restricted to scientists and educators
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GOVERNMENT
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Long-form name: none (territory of the US)
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Type: unincorporated territory of the US administered by the Fish
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and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the
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National Wildlife Refuge System
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ECONOMY
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Overview: no economic activity
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COMMUNICATIONS
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Ports: none; offshore anchorage only--one boat landing area in the
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middle of the west coast and another near the southwest corner of the
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island
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Note: there is a day beacon near the middle of the west coast
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DEFENSE FORCES
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Note: defense is the responsibility of the US; visited annually
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by the US Coast Guard
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