what a very special work you have done...thank you so
much...muchas,muchas gracias ...raedwulf --- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "geoh88" <geoh88@y...> wrote:
> 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!
>
>
>
> --- In 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