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Geographical unit:
 
 Entity
 Jarvis Island 
 Main prefix
 KH5 
 Time zone
 -11 h 
 Continent
 Australia and Oceania 
 
          Jarvis Island          
 
 Jarvis Island: Palmyra Atoll 

 Jarvis Island - (Metropole: United States)
 contains of following DXCC entities:
 
          Jarvis Island          
 
 Coat of arms 
 Coin 
 Banknote 
 Stamp 
 Satellite image 
 
 Flag 
 Flag description 
The flag of the US is used.
 
          Jarvis Island          
 
 Jarvis Island 
 Population: 
uninhabited (July 2002 est.)
Millersville settlement on western side of island occasionally used as a weather station from 1935 until World War II, when it was abandoned, reoccupied in 1957 during the International Geophysical Year by scientists who left in 1958, public entry is by special-use permit from US Fish and Wildlife Service only and generally restricted to scientists and educators, visited annually by US Fish and Wildlife Service
 Geographic
 coordinates: 
0° 22' S, 160° 00' W
 Area total: 
5 sq. km
 Land area: 
5 sq. km
 Water area: 
0 sq. km
 Total land
 boundaries: 
0 km
 Coastline: 
8 km
 Elevation
 extremes: 
Pacific Ocean 0 m - unnamed location 7 m
 Name -
 conventional
 long form: 
none
 Name -
 conventional
 short form: 
Jarvis Island
 Independence: 
none (part of USA)
 Dependency
 status: 
Unincorporated territory of the US, administered from Washington, DC, by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system.
Note: The following US Pacific island territories - Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Palmyra Atoll - constitute the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex and as such are managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of Interior.
 
          Jarvis Island          

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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