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Source        :CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 
Source key    :CI 
Program       :WORLD FACTBOOK 
ID number     :CI WOFACT 123              
Title         :JARVIS ISLAND 
Data type     :TEXT 
End year      :1994
Date of record:02/16/1994
Keywords 3    : 
| JARVIS ISLAND 
Text          : 
JARVIS ISLAND 
Affiliation: (territory of the US) 
 
GEOGRAPHY 
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 
 
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 
lacks fresh water; primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for 
seabirds, shorebirds, and marine wildlife; feral cats 
 
PEOPLE 
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 
 
GOVERNMENT 
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 
 
ECONOMY 
Overview: no economic activity 
 
COMMUNICATIONS 
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 
 
Defense forces 
Note: defense is the responsibility of the US; visited annually by the US 
Coast Guard 
 
 
 
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