Guano islands: here goes.
I don't have a scanner, so I can't give you the whole appendix.
It's pages 230-236.
The Great Guano Rush
Jimmy M. Skaggs
St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994.
There are 103 total entries for islands, rocks, and keys.
After sitting on my couch with my green accountant's eyeshade pulled
low over my eyes for hours, trying to make the numbers work, here's
my final answer:
59 entries are in no way a Guano Island, because:
a. they are duplicate entries for the same island, for lots of
different reasons (duplicate claims, different names, etc);;
b. they were claimed, but never bonded, and thus never appeared on
any guano islands list from the federales;
c. they were/are nonexistent.
2 entries are not bonded, but interesting:
French Frigate Shoals (one of the current Northwest Hawaiian
Islands) is listed as claimed, but without a date (very unusual);
anyway, it was never bonded.
Hull (Orona) is the only entry listed as never even having been
claimed under the Guano Act. Maybe Skaggs included it on the list
because it was one of the islands which the USA quitclaimed to
Kiribati, or maybe because it somehow crept onto some version of a
list somewhere along the way.
So, with those 61 out of the way, that leaves 42 which, by my count,
were bonded under the Guano Act, do actually exist, and are
unduplicated.
3 conceded to Mexico 1894: Alacrans, Arenas, Western Triangle Keys
1 conceded to Venezuela 1855: Aves
2 conceded to UK (now Jamaica) 1862,1878: Morant, Pedro
2 conceded to UK (now Kiribati) 1888, 1892: Washington (aka
Teraina), Fanning (aka America, aka Tabueran)
1 conceded to UK (now Cook Islands) 1888: Nassau
1 conceded to UK (now Tokelau, NZ) 1889: Atafu (aka Duke of York)
So there are 10 which you could maybe in some sense call Guano
islands, but I wouldn't because I'm not even sure they ever made it
onto any version of the list; basically somebody filed a bond on
someone else's island is one way to look at it. But there they are;
you be the judge.
Now, the remaining 32, baby, those are the ones which get certain
people's blood circulating a little bit quicker.
Richard Milhous Nixon dumped 4 by treaties.
3 to Colombia 1972: QuitoSueno, Roncador, Serrana
1 to Honduras 1972: Swans
Jimmy Carter unloaded 18 by treaties.
13 to Kiribati 1979: Barren (aka Starbuck), Birnies, Caroline,
Christmas, Enderbury, Flint, Gardner, Maldens, Mary's, McKean,
Phoenix, Sydney, Vostok. **Note: Hull (Orona) not counted here --
see above).
4 to Cook Islands 1980: Pukapuka (aka Danger(ous)), Manahiki (aka
Humphreys), Tongareva (aka Penrhyn), Rakahanga (aka Rierson)
1 to Tuvalu 1979: Duke of Clarence (aka Nukufetau)
So, there's 22 of the remaining 32 gone from 1972-1980.
8 of the other 10 are still all red-white-and-blue.
1. Baker
2. Howland
3. Jarvis
4. Johnston
5. Kingman
6. Navassa
7. Palmyra, also considered as thru the annexation of Hawaii
8. Swains (attached to American Samoa 1925)
9. Seranilla and
10. Petrel (aka Bajo Nuevo) are both in limbo between Colombia and
the USA
So (with apologies to Tony Kornheiser)
THAT'S IT -- THAT'S THE LIST!
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "raedwulf16" <raedwulf16@y...>
wrote:
> Some of the territories administered by the USA were acquired
under
> the Guano Act.I have read the act,and I have seen numerous
> references;however,I can not seem to find a list of ALL the
islands
> claimed by the USA under the act .I understand that some of these
> claims have been reliquished or allowed to lapse after the need
for
> droppings declined.Does anyone know where I can get a complete
list?
> Thanks! http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1047.html
> http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1049.html
>
http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/guanoisland.htm
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act
>
>
http://www.425dxn.org/dc3mf/navassa.html
>
>
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/c&gs/theb0078.htm
> http://novomilenio.inf.br/ano97/lighth1.jpg