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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <h3>1504 to 1901</h3> <p>In 1504, <a href="/facts/Christopher_Columbus/8hLAb46S">Christopher Columbus</a>, stranded on <a href="/facts/Jamaica/jeDulmwE">Jamaica</a> during his fourth voyage, sent some crew members by canoe to Hispaniola for help. En route, they landed on the island, which had no water. They called it Navaza (from <i>nava-,</i> <a href="/facts/Spanish_language/95BgYNfv">Spanish</a> for 'plain' / 'field'), and mariners largely avoided it for the next 350 years. In 1798, <a href="/facts/M%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Louis_%C3%89lie_Moreau_de_Saint-M%C3%A9ry/GNsED8oV">Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry</a>, a member of the <a href="/facts/French_Parliament/pgF2W51b">French Parliament</a> best known for his publications on <a href="/facts/Saint-Domingue/McA6yA5L">Saint-Domingue</a>, referred to "la Navasse" as a "small island between Saint-Domingue and Jamaica".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p><p>From 1801 to 1867, the successive constitutions of Haiti claimed sovereignty over adjacent islands, both named and unnamed, although Navassa was not specifically enumerated until 1874.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a>[<i>better source needed</i>] Navassa Island was claimed for the United States on September 19, 1857, by Peter Duncan, an American sea captain, under the <a href="/facts/Guano_Islands_Act/88M0IdQA">Guano Islands Act</a> of 1856, for the rich <a href="/facts/Guano/5qlRUtsV">guano</a> deposits found on the island and for not being within the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, nor occupied by another government's citizens.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p><p>Haiti protested the annexation, but on July 7, 1858, U.S. President <a href="/facts/James_Buchanan/CUkkd6Kc">James Buchanan</a> issued an Executive Order supporting the American claim, calling for military action to enforce it. Navassa Island has since been maintained by the United States as an <a href="/facts/Unincorporated_territory/B9xxaPTo">unincorporated territory</a> (according to the <a href="/facts/Insular_Cases/6ubshGxE">Insular Cases</a>). The <a href="/facts/United_States_Supreme_Court/rJHothwW">United States Supreme Court</a> on November 24, 1890, in <i><a href="/facts/Jones_v._United_States_(1890)/zbU88rY9">Jones v. United States</a></i>, <a href="/facts/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases,_volume_137/MPnjAK2P">137</a> <a href="/facts/United_States_Reports/evJp9YUQ">U.S.</a> <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/137/202/">202</a> (1890), Id. at 224, found that Navassa Island must be considered as appertaining to the United States, creating a legal history for the island under U.S. law, unlike many other islands initially claimed under the Guano Islands Act. Haiti's 1987 constitution maintains its claim to the island,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> which is considered part of the <a href="/facts/Departments_of_Haiti/8NHEy0M2">department</a> of <a href="/facts/Grand%27Anse_(department)/LFR3kqfR">Grand'Anse</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> </p> <h4>Guano mining and the Navassa Island Rebellion of 1889</h4> <p><a href="/facts/Guano/5qlRUtsV">Guano</a> phosphate is a superior organic fertilizer that became a mainstay of American agriculture in the mid-19th century. In November 1857, Duncan transferred his discoverer's rights to his employer, an American guano trader in Jamaica, who sold them to the newly formed Navassa Phosphate Company of <a href="/facts/Baltimore,_Maryland/ncJvTzBU">Baltimore</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> After an interruption for the <a href="/facts/American_Civil_War/A9FT3ksD">American Civil War</a>, the company built larger mining facilities on Navassa with barrack housing for 140 <a href="/facts/African_Americans/pTgcAdo8">black</a> contract laborers from <a href="/facts/Maryland/tVy9fC1n">Maryland</a>, houses for white supervisors, a blacksmith shop, warehouses, and a church.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> </p><p>Mining began in 1865. The workers dug out the guano by <a href="/facts/Dynamite/WQ06BcGK">dynamite</a> and pick-axe and hauled it in rail cars to the landing point at Lulu Bay, where it was put into sacks and lowered onto boats for transfer to the Company <a href="/facts/Barque/np4CEhBy">barque</a>, the S.S. <i>Romance</i>. The living quarters at Lulu Bay were referred to as '<a href="/facts/Lulu_Town/U8aj6R33">Lulu Town</a>', as appears on old maps. Railway tracks eventually extended inland.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> In September 1875, the fierce <a href="/facts/1875_Indianola_hurricane/kygdCjG1">1875 Indianola hurricane</a> swept over the island, destroying much of the company's infrastructure, including the rail line and workers' homes. In total, the storm caused an estimated $25,000 (equivalent to $720,000 in 2024) in damage on the island.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> </p><p>Hauling guano by muscle power in the fierce tropical heat, combined with general disgruntlement with conditions on the island, eventually contributed to a riot in 1889, in which five supervisors died. A U.S. warship returned 18 of the workers to Baltimore for three separate trials on murder charges. A black fraternal society, the <a href="/facts/Order_of_Galilean_Fishermen/yEt3Rh7G">Order of Galilean Fishermen</a>, raised money to defend the miners in federal court. The defense tried to build a case on the contention that the men acted in self-defense or the heat of passion and even claimed that the United States did not have jurisdiction over the island.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Everett_J._Waring/r9FLt5o8">E. J. Waring</a>, the first black lawyer called to the Maryland <a href="/facts/Bar_(law)/QKSRYIQ9">bar</a>, was a part of the defense's legal team. The cases, including <i>Jones v. United States</i>, went to the <a href="/facts/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States/rJHothwW">U.S. Supreme Court</a> in October 1890, which ruled the Guano Act constitutional. Three of the miners were scheduled for <a href="/facts/Capital_punishment_by_the_United_States_federal_government/QocmFj6Y">execution</a> in the spring of 1891. A grass-roots petition driven by black churches around the country, also signed by white jurors from the three trials, reached President <a href="/facts/Benjamin_Harrison/RFEfVlg4">Benjamin Harrison</a>, who mentioned the case in the <a href="/facts/1891_State_of_the_Union_Address/AfnEhd58">1891 State of the Union Address</a>. Among other things, he said: </p> <blockquote><p><i>"There appeared on the trial and otherwise came to me such evidences of the bad treatment of the men that in consideration of this and of the fact that the men had no access to any public officer or tribunal for protection or the redress of their wrongs I commuted the death sentences that had been passed by the court upon three of them."</i></p></blockquote> <p>Guano mining resumed on Navassa at a much-reduced level. </p><p>In 1898, during the <a href="/facts/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War/ScKbBPAv">Spanish–American War</a>, the Phosphate Company had to abandon its operations on Navassa due to its proximity to Spanish Cuba and Puerto Rico. Company president John H. Fowler noted that the war made it impossible to find ships to deliver supplies to the island and expected his workers to be evacuated by June. Maryland senator <a href="/facts/Arthur_Pue_Gorman/FxatMCzd">Arthur Pue Gorman</a> called for a naval warship to escort supply ships to the island to help evacuate workers.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> In July 1898, abrogating an agreement with Haitian Naval Admiral <a href="/facts/Hammerton_Killick/2hqeHwGb">Hammerton Killick</a> that would have allowed the Phosphate Company to withdraw equipment and supplies left on Navassa, a group of Haitians occupied the island and seized the company's assets. They were unable to operate the machinery, and mining ceased.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> The Navassa Phosphate Company went bankrupt and the island was sold at auction in the United States in September 1900.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> A dispute over the sale hampered efforts to restart mining on the island and left four contract workers virtually abandoned on Navassa from December 1900 to May 1901.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a> Between 1857 and 1898, approximately 1 million pounds (450,000 kg) of phosphate deposits were removed from the island.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a> </p> <h3>1901 to present</h3> <p>In 1905, the <a href="/facts/United_States_Lighthouse_Service/pQkH5LQH">U.S. Lighthouse Service</a> identified Navassa Island as a good location for a new lighthouse.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a> However, plans for the light moved slowly. With the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, shipping between the American eastern seaboard and the Canal through the <a href="/facts/Windward_Passage/5nBqUgUo">Windward Passage</a> between Cuba and Haiti increased in the area of Navassa, which proved a hazard to navigation. Congress appropriated $125,000 in 1913 to build a lighthouse on Navassa,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a> and in 1917 the Lighthouse Service built the 162-<a href="/facts/Foot_(unit)/XKamEGjV">foot</a> (49-meter) <a href="/facts/Navassa_Island_Light/Ga7fdYCJ">Navassa Island Light</a> on the island, 395 feet (120 meters) <a href="/facts/Above_sea_level/Aqv1HLP2">above sea level</a>. At the same time, a <a href="/facts/Wireless_telegraphy/g1p5PaPA">wireless telegraphy</a> station was established on the island.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a> A keeper and two assistants were assigned to live there until the Lighthouse Service installed an automatic beacon in 1929.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a> </p><p>After absorbing the Lighthouse Service in 1939, the U.S. Coast Guard serviced the light twice yearly. The U.S. Navy set up an observation post for the duration of World War II. The island has been uninhabited since then. Fishermen, mainly from Haiti, fish the waters around Navassa. </p><p>As part of the Parish–Smithsonian Expedition to Haiti in 1930, Smithsonian naturalists <a href="/facts/Alexander_Wetmore/8VrcFPmH">Alexander Wetmore</a> and Waston Perrygo stopped at Navassa to document and collect examples of the island's birds and other terrestrial and marine wildlife.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a> </p><p>From 1917 to 1996, Navassa was under the administration of the <a href="/facts/United_States_Coast_Guard/6d7SWTP9">United States Coast Guard</a>. In 1996, the Coast Guard dismantled the light on Navassa, which ended its interest in the island. Consequently, the <a href="/facts/United_States_Department_of_the_Interior/uWllgxWx">Department of the Interior</a> assumed responsibility for the civil administration of the <a href="/facts/Insular_area/k2gYE0dI">area</a>, and placed the island under its Office of Insular Affairs.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a> For statistical purposes, Navassa was grouped with the now-obsolete term <a href="/facts/United_States_Miscellaneous_Caribbean_Islands/Wy0CxUBp">United States Miscellaneous Caribbean Islands</a> and is now grouped with other islands claimed by the U.S. under the Guano Islands Act as the <a href="/facts/United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands/l6wulClL">United States Minor Outlying Islands</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33"><sup>33</sup></a> </p><p>In 1997, an American salvager, Bill Warren, claimed Navassa to the Department of State based on the <a href="/facts/Guano_Islands_Act/88M0IdQA">Guano Islands Act</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34"><sup>34</sup></a> On March 27, 1997, the Department of the Interior rejected the claim on the basis that the Guano Islands Act applies only to islands which, at the time of the claim, are not "appertaining to" the United States. The department's opinion said that Navassa is and remains a U.S. possession "appertaining to" the United States and is "unavailable to be claimed" under the Guano Islands Act.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35"><sup>35</sup></a> </p><p>A 1998 scientific expedition led by the <a href="/facts/The_Ocean_Conservancy/108oo2au">Center for Marine Conservation</a> in <a href="/facts/Washington,_D.C./enXPK156">Washington, D.C.</a>, described Navassa as "a unique preserve of Caribbean biodiversity."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36"><sup>36</sup></a> Aside from a few extinctions, the island's land and offshore ecosystems have mostly survived the 20th century.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37"><sup>37</sup></a> </p> <h4>National Wildlife Refuge</h4> <p>In September 1999, the <a href="/facts/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service/kNLNl93B">United States Fish and Wildlife Service</a> established the Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge, which encompasses 1,344 acres (5.44 km2) of land and a 12 nautical mile (22.2 km) radius of marine habitat around the island. Later that year, full administrative responsibility for Navassa was transferred from the Office of Insular Affairs to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38"><sup>38</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39"><sup>39</sup></a> </p><p>The <a href="/facts/National_Wildlife_Refuge/WaMlBPXE">National Wildlife Refuge</a> protects coral reef ecosystems, native wildlife, and plants and provides opportunities for scientific research on and around Navassa Island. Navassa Island features large seabird colonies, including over 5,000 nesting <a href="/facts/Red-footed_booby/fxKf86s8">red-footed booby</a> (<i>Sula sula</i>). Navassa is home to four endemic lizard species. Two other endemic lizards, <i><a href="/facts/Cyclura_cornuta_onchiopsis/QQGztw1f">Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis</a></i> and <i><a href="/facts/Navassa_curly-tailed_lizard/dKGtSVad">Leiocephalus eremitus</a>,</i> are extinct.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40"><sup>40</sup></a> </p><p>Navassa Island NWR is administered as part of the <a href="/facts/Caribbean_Islands_National_Wildlife_Refuge_Complex/bG3rWbjm">Caribbean Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex</a>. Due to hazardous coastal conditions and to preserve species habitat, the refuge is closed to the general public, and visitors need permission from the Fish and Wildlife Service to enter its territorial waters or land.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:41" href="#fn:41"><sup>41</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:42" href="#fn:42"><sup>42</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:43" href="#fn:43"><sup>43</sup></a> </p><p>After World War II, amateur radio operators occasionally visited to operate from the territory. Navassa is accorded "entity" (country) status by the <a href="/facts/American_Radio_Relay_League/NXFGqIPA">American Radio Relay League</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:44" href="#fn:44"><sup>44</sup></a> The <a href="/facts/Callsign/k3Y1upDl">callsign</a> <a href="/facts/Prefix/C4Lw8npg">prefix</a> is KP1.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:45" href="#fn:45"><sup>45</sup></a> </p><p>Since it became a National Wildlife Refuge, <a href="/facts/Amateur_radio/cBsMyamV">amateur radio</a> operators have repeatedly been denied entry.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:46" href="#fn:46"><sup>46</sup></a> In October 2014, permission was granted for a two-week <a href="/facts/DX-pedition/GtEnXUau">DX-pedition</a> in February 2015.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:47" href="#fn:47"><sup>47</sup></a> The operation, designated K1N, made 138,409 contacts.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:48" href="#fn:48"><sup>48</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="geography-topography-and-ecology">Geography, topography and ecology</h2> <p>Navassa Island is about 2.1 square miles (5.4 km2) in area. It is located 35 miles (56 km) west of <a href="/facts/Haiti/yjgyeK9w">Haiti</a>'s southwest peninsula,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:49" href="#fn:49"><sup>49</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:50" href="#fn:50"><sup>50</sup></a> 103 miles (166 km) south of the U.S. naval base at <a href="/facts/Guant%C3%A1namo_Bay,_Cuba/n9xXySfA">Guantánamo Bay, Cuba</a>, and about one-quarter of the way from mainland Haiti to <a href="/facts/Jamaica/jeDulmwE">Jamaica</a> in the <a href="/facts/Jamaica_Channel/QRfFaVMl">Jamaica Channel</a>. </p><p>Navassa reaches an elevation of 250 feet (76 m) at Dunning Hill 110 yards (100 m) south of the lighthouse, Navassa Island Light.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:51" href="#fn:51"><sup>51</sup></a> This location is 440 yards (400 m) from the southwestern coast or 655 yards (600 m) east of Lulu Bay. </p><p>The terrain of Navassa Island consists mostly of exposed coral and limestone, the island being ringed by vertical white cliffs 30 to 50 feet (9.1 to 15.2 m) high, but with enough grassland to support goat herds. The island is covered in a forest of four tree species: short-leaf <a href="/facts/Ficus/70M2tmEB">fig</a> (<i>Ficus populnea</i> var. <i>brevifolia</i>), pigeon plum (<i><a href="/facts/Coccoloba_diversifolia/1IbjzWLR">Coccoloba diversifolia</a></i>), mastic (<i><a href="/facts/Sideroxylon_foetidissimum/6AqjleRf">Sideroxylon foetidissimum</a></i>), and poisonwood (<i><a href="/facts/Metopium_brownei/D84Al5ee">Metopium brownei</a></i>).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:52" href="#fn:52"><sup>52</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:53" href="#fn:53"><sup>53</sup></a> </p> <h3>Ecology</h3> <p>Navassa Island's topography, ecology, and modern history are similar to those of <a href="/facts/Mona,_Puerto_Rico/z2PyU1jR">Mona Island</a>, a small limestone island located in the <a href="/facts/Mona_Passage/d5L67lF1">Mona Passage</a> between <a href="/facts/Puerto_Rico/jVStMyG4">Puerto Rico</a> and the <a href="/facts/Dominican_Republic/u36V3Nsb">Dominican Republic</a>. These islands were once centers of <a href="/facts/Guano/5qlRUtsV">guano</a> mining and are now nature reserves for the United States. </p><p>Transient Haitian fishermen and others camp on Navassa Island. Still, it is uninhabited.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:54" href="#fn:54"><sup>54</sup></a> Navassa has no ports or harbors, only offshore anchorages, and its only natural resource is guano. Economic activity consists of subsistence fishing and commercial trawling activities.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:55" href="#fn:55"><sup>55</sup></a> A 2009 survey of fishermen in southwestern Haiti estimated some 300 fishermen, primarily from <a href="/facts/Anse_d%27Hainault_Arrondissement/UNxIJ4Mn">Anse d'Hainault Arrondissement</a>, regularly fished near the island.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:56" href="#fn:56"><sup>56</sup></a> </p><p>There were eight species of native reptiles, all of which are believed to be, or to have been, <a href="/facts/Endemism/xt4IpIsl">endemic</a> to Navassa Island: <i><a href="/facts/Comptus_badius/KW99YR3j">Comptus badius</a></i> (an <a href="/facts/Anguidae/mksRDdpo">anguid lizard</a>), <i><a href="/facts/Aristelliger_cochranae/yIRF7vcb">Aristelliger cochranae</a></i> (a <a href="/facts/Gecko/13Hu5c1w">gecko</a>), <i><a href="/facts/Sphaerodactylus_becki/wP0452IK">Sphaerodactylus becki</a></i> (a gecko), <i><a href="/facts/Anolis_longiceps/Ehg8y1Cs">Anolis longiceps</a></i> (an <a href="/facts/Anole/D0nh96tW">anole</a>), <i><a href="/facts/Cyclura_cornuta_onchiopsis/QQGztw1f">Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis</a></i> (an endemic subspecies of the <a href="/facts/Rhinoceros_iguana/dzQYwmyd">rhinoceros iguana</a>), <i><a href="/facts/Leiocephalus_eremitus/dKGtSVad">Leiocephalus eremitus</a></i> (a <a href="/facts/Curly-tailed_lizard/WxnNpU9I">curly-tailed lizard</a>), <i><a href="/facts/Tropidophis_bucculentus/j7vkgue2">Tropidophis bucculentus</a></i> (a <a href="/facts/Dwarf_boa/602P3PuE">dwarf boa</a>), and <i><a href="/facts/Typhlops_sulcatus/FWuEEwxY">Typhlops sulcatus</a></i> (a tiny snake).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:57" href="#fn:57"><sup>57</sup></a> Of these, the first four remain common, with the next three likely <a href="/facts/Extinct/24p5NP2q">extinct</a>, and the last being possibly <a href="/facts/Extirpated/DbRYtFPq">extirpated</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:58" href="#fn:58"><sup>58</sup></a> due to feral <a href="/facts/Feral_cat/JAcDkJ5A">cats</a>, <a href="/facts/Free-ranging_dog/hXm6aYKP">dogs</a> and <a href="/facts/Feral_pigs/VbyS8oW3">pigs</a> inhabiting the island. </p><p>In 2012, <i><a href="/facts/Acropora_palmata/EPWDKv6V">Acropora palmata</a></i> (elkhorn coral), a common reef-building coral of the Caribbean, was located underwater near the island. The remaining coral was found to be in good condition.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:59" href="#fn:59"><sup>59</sup></a> </p> <h3>Birds</h3> <p>The island, with its surrounding marine waters, has been recognized as an <a href="/facts/Important_Bird_Area/lNzQytd9">Important Bird Area</a> (IBA) by <a href="/facts/BirdLife_International/2mvdlBdx">BirdLife International</a> because it supports breeding <a href="/facts/Bird_colony/UnbIx6aM">colonies</a> of <a href="/facts/Red-footed_booby/fxKf86s8">red-footed boobies</a> and <a href="/facts/Magnificent_frigatebird/egCBaWRu">magnificent frigatebirds</a>, as well as hundreds of <a href="/facts/White-crowned_pigeon/qx9rbEAh">white-crowned pigeons</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:60" href="#fn:60"><sup>60</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="maritime-boundary-disputes">Maritime boundary disputes</h2> <p>The dispute has prevented the definitive delimitation of the maritime zones between the United States and Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti, as well as determining the maritime frontier at the point of confluence between Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:61" href="#fn:61"><sup>61</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:62" href="#fn:62"><sup>62</sup></a> The island was disregarded for the purposes of determining equidistant boundary calculation with <a href="/facts/Cuba/vHjTXLPW">Cuba</a> during the signing of the <a href="/facts/Cuba%E2%80%93Haiti_Maritime_Boundary_Agreement/4aUcDeUf">Cuba–Haiti Maritime Boundary Agreement</a> in 1977; Cuba backs Haiti's claim to the island.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:63" href="#fn:63"><sup>63</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_Guano_Island_claims/HakndBcF">List of Guano Island claims</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/United_States_and_the_United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea/I4q2fzFu">United States and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea</a></li></ul> <ul><li><i>The Navassa Island Riot. Illustrated.</i> Published by the National Grand Tabernacle, Order of Gallilean Fishermen, Baltimore, Md.</li> <li>Fabio Spadi (2001). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110122224655/http://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/publications/view/?id=195">"Navassa: Legal Nightmares in a Biological Heaven?"</a>. IBRU Boundary & Security Bulletin. Archived from <a href="http://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/publications/view/?id=195">the original</a> on January 22, 2011.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://commons.wmu.se/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1473&context=all_dissertations">A 2014 dissertation entitled <i>Haiti's Claim over Navassa Island: A Case Study</i></a></li> <li><a href="https://fws.gov/refuge/navassa-island">Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.estadodenavaza.galeon.com/">State of Navaza</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110711063304/http://www.estadodenavaza.galeon.com/">Archived</a> July 11, 2011, at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rfrajola.com/KL_Navassa/KL_Navassa.pdf">The Mails of Navassa</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"GAO/OGC-98-5 - U.S. Insular Areas: Application of the U.S. Constitution". U.S. Government Printing Office. 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