Jarvis Island is an uninhabited 1 3/4-square-mile coral island located in the South Pacific Ocean at 0°22?S 160°01?W, about halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands. It is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system. Unlike most coral atolls, the lagoon on Jarvis is wholly ...
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