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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 ...
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 ...
The minor outlying islands and groups of islands comprise eight United States insular areas in the Pacific Ocean (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island) and one in the Caribbean Sea (Navassa Island). The islands, though scattered across the Pacific and quite small ...
The status of several islands is disputed. Navassa Island is disputed by Haiti, [119] Wake Island is disputed by the Marshall Islands, [118] Swains Island (a part of American Samoa) is disputed by Tokelau, [120] [44] and Bajo Nuevo Bank and Serranilla Bank (both administered by Colombia) are disputed by Colombia and Jamaica. [7] [121]
Greater Antilles. The Greater Antilles[1] is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico, together with Navassa Island and the Cayman Islands. Six island states share the region of the Greater Antilles, with Haiti and the Dominican Republic sharing the island of Hispaniola.
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 ...
U.S. Caribbean region (in Spanish: El Caribe estadounidense) is a term used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to refer to the waters belonging to the United States in the Caribbean Sea. [1] NOAA maps it as a natural region of the United States, located in the Caribbean Sea, made up of federal waters in and around ...
Lulu Town. Coordinates: 18.396°N 75.0182°W. An unsigned painting of Navassa Island c. 1870 showing the brig Romance, company buildings at Lulu Town near the shore, and guano mining activity up the hillside. Lulu Town, also known as Lulu Ville, is a now uninhabited, former settlement on Navassa Island, claimed by both the United States and ...