Located east of Jamaica, south of Cuba, and 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) west of Jérémie on the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti, it is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute between Haiti and the United …

Navassa Island is three square miles in area. Navassa lies about one hundred miles south of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, about thirty miles west of Cape Tiburon, Haiti, at the southwest entrance to …

May 5, 2019 · On December 8, 1859, to forestall a Haitian attempt to take possession of Navassa, a Caribbean island south of Cuba, U.S. Secretary of State Lewis Cass made a momentous decision.

Established in 1999, Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge is an uninhabited, 5 km² island in the Caribbean Sea between Haiti and Jamaica.

The earliest record of Navassa Island (Île de la Navasse in French; Lanavaz in Haitian Creole) comes from 1504 when Christopher Columbus inadvertently discovered the island. Lacking drinkable water, …

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Navassa Island is an uninhabited island in the Caribbean that is administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior of the United States of America as a National Wildlife …

Located east of Jamaica, south of Cuba, and 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) west of Jérémie on the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti, it is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute between Haiti and the United …

Fifteen island species are currently recognized as endemic and include land snails, lizards, vascular plants, and possibly a ground dove. Two endemic species, an iguana and curly tailed lizard found on …

Navassa Island, or La Navase in Haitian Creole, is a small island without anyone living on it in the Caribbean Sea. [1] It is located ninety miles south of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.