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Satellite image Desecheo from Rincón. Desecheo (Spanish: Isla Desecheo) (Spanish pronunciation: [deseˈtʃeo]) is a small uninhabited island of the archipelago of Puerto Rico in the northeast of the Mona Passage; 13 mi (21 km) from the municipality of Rincón on the west coast (Punta Higüero) of the main island of Puerto Rico and 31 mi (50 km) northeast of Mona Island.
From 1940 to 1952 the island was used as a practice target for aerial bombardment by the US War Department and from 1952 to 1960 Desecheo was used as a survival training area for the U.S. Air Force. Although formerly containing a colony of 15,000 brown boobies and 10,000 red-footed boobies , currently no successful booby breeding is known to ...
Although Puerto Rico has no natural units in the National Park System, the biodiversity of the island is recognized and protected through a national forest, a national wildlife refuge, a national wilderness, and numerous state parks (called national parks in Puerto Rico [1]), nature reserves, state forests, wildlife preserves and other ...
Isla Palomino Cayo Icacos Cayo Aurora. This is a list of islands of Puerto Rico.. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has over 143 islands, keys, islets, and atolls.Only the main island of Puerto Rico (3,424 sq mi [8,868 km2]), and the islands of Vieques (51 sq mi [130 km 2]), and Culebra (10 sq mi [26 km 2]) are inhabited.
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Clipperton Island: TX5K Made more than 113,000 contacts including 47 EME contacts. [17] 2012 Campbell Island: ZL9HR [18] 2007 Scarborough Shoal: BS7H: located on a rock less than six feet above sea level, 5th most wanted DXCC location [19] 1978 Clipperton Island: FO0XB: First DXpedition to the island in 20 years, 38th most wanted DXCC location ...
2015 – K1N – KP1-5 project Expedition to Navassa Island, [11] the #1 most-wanted DXCC entity on ClubLog and the DX Magazine survey. 2014 – FT5ZM – DX-pedition to Amsterdam Island [12] 2013 – TX5K – Cordell Expeditions 2013 to Clipperton Island, [13] more than 113,000 QSOs, 47 EME contacts.
Mona Island lies close to the middle of the Mona Passage. Three miles (5 km) northwest of Mona Island is the much smaller Monito Island . Thirty miles (50 km) northeast of Mona Island and much closer (13 mi or 21 km) to the Puerto Rican mainland is Desecheo Island .