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Center for Research on Globalization
January 6, 2018
(A ninth minor outlying island, Navassa Island, is located in the Caribbean Ocean, near Haiti.) Around these insular territories is an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of 200 nautical miles. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration defines the EEZ as “the zone where the U.S. and other coastalÃâà...
Hindustan Times
October 14, 2017
Other than the five inhabited territories, the regions are: Navassa Island, Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll and Wake Atoll. One US territory, Palmyra Atoll, is incorporated, with the US Congress applying the full corpus of the Constitution as it applies inÃâà...
OCRegister
August 17, 2017
Navassa Island is uninhabited and is between Jamaica and Haiti. 8. Midway Islands is an atoll covering 2.4 square miles. 9. Kingman Reef came under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Navy in 1934. 10. Johnston Atoll was under the control of the American military for 70 years and was used for nuclear weaponsÃâà...
Voice of America
December 21, 2016
They are Palmyra Atoll, Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll and Wake Atoll. There are three uninhabited island U.S. territories in the Caribbean: Bajo Nuevo Bank, Navassa Island and Serranilla Bank. Other countries dispute the U.S. control of some ofÃâà...
Coastal Review Online
July 12, 2016
Navassa Guano Fertilizer Co. was formed after large guano deposits were discovered in 1856 on Navassa Island, a small, uninhabited island about 15 miles off the coast of Jamaica. A group of Wilmington investors arranged to have ships that delivered North Carolina turpentine products to the West IndiesÃâà...
Jewish Journal
February 24, 2016
U.S/Colombia/Jamaica/Nicaragua/Honduras The U.S., Colombia, Jamaica, Nicaragua, and Honduras have all claimed sovereignty over the two small isolated, and uninhabited islets collectively known as Bajo Nuevo Bank (The Petrel Islands). U.S./Haiti Navassa Island is disputed between the U.S. andÃâà...
ARRL
February 11, 2015
The pressure to work K1N on Navassa Island continues. The DXpedition has topped 100,000 contacts as it enters final few days, but demand seems insatiable. The pileups continue to be fierce with little letup, K1N team member Glenn Johnson, W0GJ, said in a February 10 media release. A day earlierÃâà...
ARRL
October 22, 2014
The KP1-5 Project has received word from the US Fish & Wildlife Service that it may activate Navassa Island (KP1) in January 2015. The DXpedition will be a maximum of 14 days, and exact dates will be determined by USFWS mission requirements and weather windows. “Our experienced team of 15 isÃâà...
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