no indigenous inhabitants(April 2002 est.) approximately 40 people make up the staff of US Fish and Wildlife Service and their services cooperator living at the atoll
Geographic coordinates:
28° 13' N, 177° 22' W
Area total:
6.2 sq. km includes Eastern Island, Sand Island, and Spit Island
Land area:
6.2 sq. km
Water area:
0 sq. km
Total land boundaries:
0 km
Coastline:
15 km
Elevation extremes:
Pacific Ocean 0 m - unnamed location 13 m
Name - conventional long form:
none
Name - conventional short form:
Midway Islands
Independence:
none (part of USA)
Dependency status:
Unincorporated territory of the US, formerly administered from Washington, DC, by the US Navy, under Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific Division, this facility has been operationally closed since 10 September 1993, on 31 October 1996, through a presidential executive order, the jurisdiction and control of the atoll was transferred to 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.