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Navassa Island (/ n ə ˈ v æ s ə /; Haitian Creole: Lanavaz; French: Île de la Navasse, sometimes la Navase) is a small uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea.Located northeast of Jamaica, south of Cuba, and 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) west of Jérémie on the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti, it is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute between Haiti and the United States, which ...
Head Island: VE0EK [14] 2015 Navassa Island: K1N At the time this location was the #1 most-wanted DXCC entity on ClubLog and the DX Magazine survey [15] 2014 Amsterdam Island: FT5ZM [16] 2013 Clipperton Island: TX5K Made more than 113,000 contacts including 47 EME contacts. [17] 2012 Campbell Island: ZL9HR [18] 2007 Scarborough Shoal: BS7H
Amateur radio. A DX-pedition is an expedition to what is considered an exotic place by amateur radio operators and DX listeners, typically because of its remoteness, access restrictions, or simply because there are very few radio amateurs active from that place. This could be an island, a country, or even a particular spot on a geographical grid.
Jones v. United States 137 U.S. 202 (1890) is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court upheld the constitutionality of the Guano Islands Act, which states that any island that fell under the act was under the jurisdiction of any existing statues or laws pertaining to high seas. The case originated from claims the United States ...
Navassa Island Light is a deactivated lighthouse on Navassa Island, which lies in the Caribbean Sea at the south end of the Windward Passage between the islands of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) to the east and Cuba and Jamaica to the west. [1][2][3] It is on the shortest route between the east coast of the United States and the ...
Caribbean Islands National Wildlife Complex is an administrative unit of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service which oversees National Wildlife Refuges in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Navassa Island of the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands. The NWR complex also manages the reintroduction of the critically endangered Puerto Rican ...
The fourth voyage of Columbus was a Spanish maritime expedition in 1502–1504 to the western Caribbean Sea led by Christopher Columbus.The voyage, Columbus's last, failed to find a western maritime route to the Far East, returned relatively little profit, and resulted in the loss of many crew men, all the fleet's ships, and a year-long marooning in Jamaica.
37-46060 [3] GNIS feature ID. 2406968 [2] Website. townofnavassa.org. Navassa is a town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,505 at the 2010 census, [4] up from 479 in 2000. Navassa is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.