Jarvis Island

Jarvis Island was officially made part of the United States in 1858.

The center of Jarvis island is a dried lagoon where deep guano deposits accumulated.

Jarvis Island Home Page Website with photos, weather, and more.

August 21 - Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the Eliza Frances.

WorldStatesmen Offers brief data on Jarvis island.

On this voyage he visited Jarvis Island, where his daughter Sydney photographed the construction of a day beacon.

Public entry to Jarvis Island requires a special-use permit and is generally restricted to scientists and educators.

While a few offshore anchorage spots are marked on maps, Jarvis island has no ports or harbors, and swift currents are a hazard.

Beginning in 1858, several support structures were built on Jarvis Island, along with a two-story, eight-room "superintendent's house" featuring an observation cupola and wide verandahs.

Jarvis Island information website Has several photos of the old Millersville settlement, together with more modern photos of the island.

Baker Island, Howland Island and Jarvis Island have a small boat landing place on each.

Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands have an equatorial climate, with scant rainfall, constant wind, and burning sun.

These islands are Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, and Palmyra Island.

He took a load of guano (bird excrement used as fertilizer) from Jarvis Island to New York, which served as the couple's honeymoon voyage.

Taney subsequently escorted her merchantman consort to Jarvis Island, where she evacuated the four Interior Department colonists and burned all structures to the ground before departing.

He graduated from Punahou School 1850-1860, and worked for Samuel Garner Wilder loading a shipload of guano from Jarvis Island.

Jarvis Island is under the jurisdiction of the US Federal Government as part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

The Division also was responsible for administration of several islands claimed by the United States under the Guano Act, including Howland, Baker, and Jarvis Islands.

In October 1857 the American Guano Company sent Benson's son Arthur to Baker and Jarvis Islands to survey the guano deposits.

"This name is the title of a guano from McKean's Island, situated in the neighborhood of Baker and Jarvis Islands and occupied with a similar deposit.

American Samoa, located within the geographical region of Oceania, is one of only two possessions of the United States in the Southern Hemisphere, the other being Jarvis Island.

Midway Atoll (US Territory with staff temporarily stationed there), Jarvis Island and Palmyra Atoll (uninhabited US Territories)

The American Guano Company established claims in respect to Baker Island and Jarvis Island which was recognised under the U.S. Guano Islands Act of 1856.

Manager of a scientific (research) station, e.g. for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) on Jarvis Island, an uninhabited minor U.S. Pacific island possession.

Whippoorwill made other cruises, carrying members of ornithological surveys to islands such as Kingman Reef, Palmyra, Christmas Island, Jarvis Island, Howland Island, and Baker Island.