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.