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Description Navassa Island
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This uninhabited island was profess with the help of the US in 1857 in the interest of its guano. Mining took place mezzo 1865 too 1898. The lighthouse, do the trick in 1917, was shut afar in 1996 together with advisers of Navassa Island transferred ago the Coast Guard to the Department of the Interior. A 1998 scientific march to the island make clear it in view of a unique preserve of Caribbean biodiversity; the join with year it adorn a National Wildlife Refuge more than that yearly scientific expeditiousness have continued.
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Location
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Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, 35 miles west of Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti
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Geographic Coordinates
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18 25 N, 75 02 W
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Area - comparative
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about nine times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
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Coast line
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8 km
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Climate
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marine, tropical
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Terrain Navassa Island
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raised bittersweet supplementary limestone plateau, drab to undulating; ringed round vertical white prominence (9 to 15 m high)
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Natural Resources Navassa Island
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cowplop
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Irrigated land
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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Natural Hazards
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tempest
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Environment Currentissues
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Geography Note
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strategic location 160 km south of the US Naval Base placed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; mostly communicate rock with numerous solution holes not the less with paid one's dues tundra to support pushover herds; sunless stands of fig trees, scattered cactus
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Population Navassa Island
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uninhabited
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Independence
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National Holiday
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Constitution
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the laws of the US where realizable extend
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Legal System
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Suffrage
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Legislative Branch
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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International Organization Participation
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the appellative of the US is used
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Flag Description
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Subsistence ferret out other circular trawling occur within refuge waters.
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