United States Minor Outlying Islands

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The flag of the United States is used for all of the United States Minor Outlying Islands

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Map showing the location of the islands in the Pacific Ocean (highlighted with red boxes)

The United States Minor Outlying Islands, a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166-1, consists of nine insular United States possessions. Palmyra Atoll is the only incorporated territory among them. Currently, none of them have any permanent residents. Most recently, the census of population of 1980 gives population figures for three of the islands: Johnston Atoll (327), Midway Atoll (453), and Wake Island (302). The following censuses of 1990 and 2000 only note that there was no indigenous population, which was also true for all previous censuses except that of 1940. The Baker, Howland and Jarvis Colonization Scheme attempted to settle Americans on those three islands beginning in 1935, but all three islands were evacuated in 1942 as a result of World War II.

They are grouped together entirely as a statistical convenience. They are not administered collectively, nor do they share a single cultural or political history beyond being currently uninhabited islands under the sovereignty of the United States.

They are collectively represented by the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code UM. The individual islands have ISO 3166-2 numerical codes, see ISO_3166-2:UM. The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) ".um" has historically been assigned to the islands; however, the .um ccTLD was retired in January of 2007. ^[1]

1 Airports
2 Islands Table
3 Sources and references
4 References
5 See also

[edit] Airports

PJON (JON) – Johnston Island Airport - Johnston Island
PMDY (MDY) – Henderson Field (Naval Air Facility) – Sand Island
PWAK (AWK) – Wake Island Airfield - Wake Island
PLPA – Palmyra Airport – Palmyra Atoll - Cooper Island
PBAR – Baker Island Airport
PLUR – Jarvis Airport – Jarvis Island
Howland Island Airport (historical)[1]
Kingman Reef: lagoon was used as a halfway station between Hawaii and American Samoa by Pan American Airways for flying boats in 1937 and 1938 [2]

[edit] Islands Table

Atoll/Island	Island Area km²	Lagoon km²	Coordinates	NWR established	date of acquisition
Northern Pacific Ocean, scattered isolated islands
Wake Island¹	7.4	6	19°18′N, 166°38′E	N/A	1899-01-17
Johnston Atoll	2.52	130	16°45′N, 169°31′W	N/A	1859-09-06
Northern Pacific Ocean, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Midway Atoll	5.18	40	28°13′N, 177°22′W	1998	1867-08-28
Central Pacific Ocean, Northern Line Islands
Kingman Reef	0.03	60	6°24′N, 162°24′W	2001-01-18	1860-02-08
Palmyra Atoll	6.56	15	5°53′N, 162°05′W	2001-01-18	1912-02-21
Central Pacific Ocean, Central Line Islands
Jarvis Island	4.45	-	0°22′S, 160°01′W	1974	1856-10-28
Central Pacific Ocean, Northern Phoenix Islands
Baker Island	1.24	-	0°12′N, 176°29′W	1974	1856-10-28
Howland Island	1.62	-	0°48′N, 176°37′W	1974	1856-10-28
Caribbean Sea
Navassa Island²	5.2	-	18°24′N, 75°01′W	1999-09-30	1858-10-31
Bajo Nuevo Bank³	0.02	155	15°53′N, 78°38′W	N/A	1869-11-22
Serranilla Bank³	0.02	1200	15°50′N, 79°50′W	N/A	1879-09-08 1880-09-13
U.S. Minor Outlying Islands	34.2	251
¹claimed by the Marshall Islands
²claimed by Haiti
³These islands are disputed with Colombia, Jamaica, and possibly Honduras. Their areas are not included in the totals. Only one U.S. Government online resource [3] list these islands in the context of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, all others do not.

[edit] Sources and references

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[edit] References

^ Jesdanun, Anick. "Unused Domain Name for U.S. Isles Gone", msnbc, 24 January, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-09-28.

[edit] See also

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