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Navassa Island, United States Minor Outlying Islandsi
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Navassa IslandIsland
United States Minor Outlying IslandsUnincorporated and Unorganized Territory

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Island
Mindat Locality ID:
280775
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:280775:4
GUID (UUID V4):
0


Navassa Island is a small uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea. Located northeast of Jamaica, south of Cuba, 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) west of Jérémie on the southwest peninsula of Haiti, which is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute between Haiti and the United States, which administers the island through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The U.S. has claimed the island since 1857, based on the Guano Islands Act of 1856. Haiti's claim over Navassa goes back to the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697 that established French possessions in mainland Hispaniola, that were transferred from Spain by the treaty as well as other specifically named nearby islands. Its 1801 constitution also claimed unnamed "other adjacent islands", with Navassa not specifically named. Since its 1874 Constitution, and after the establishment of the 1857 U.S. claim, Haiti has explicitly named "la Navase" as one of the territories it claims.

Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, who was a member of the French Parliament best known for his publications on Saint-Domingue (now the Republic of Haiti), referred to la Navasse as the "small French island of Saint-Domingue" in 1798.

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2 valid minerals.

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Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates
ⓘDolomite5.AB.10CaMg(CO3)2
ⓘAragonite5.AB.15CaCO3
Unclassified
ⓘ'Apatite'-Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)

List of minerals for each chemical element

HHydrogen
Hⓘ ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
CCarbon
Cⓘ AragoniteCaCO3
Cⓘ DolomiteCaMg(CO3)2
OOxygen
Oⓘ AragoniteCaCO3
Oⓘ DolomiteCaMg(CO3)2
Oⓘ ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
FFluorine
Fⓘ ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
MgMagnesium
Mgⓘ DolomiteCaMg(CO3)2
PPhosphorus
Pⓘ ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
ClChlorine
Clⓘ ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
CaCalcium
Caⓘ AragoniteCaCO3
Caⓘ DolomiteCaMg(CO3)2
Caⓘ ApatiteCa5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)

Fossils

There are 1 fossil locality from the PaleoBioDB database within this region.

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Occurrences2
Youngest Fossil Listed0.01 Ma (Pleistocene)
Oldest Fossil Listed0.13 Ma (Pleistocene)
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Accepted NameHierarchy Age
Geochelone
genus		Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Testudinidae : Geochelone0.126 - 0.0117 Ma
Pleistocene
Pseudemys
genus		Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Emydidae : Pseudemys0.126 - 0.0117 Ma
Pleistocene
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Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navassa_Island
Wikidata ID:Q25359

Localities in this Region

United States Minor Outlying Islands

Other Regions, Features and Areas that Intersect

Caribbean PlateTectonic Plate
North America
North America Plate

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References

pubs.er.usgs.gov (n.d.) https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ds592
pubs.er.usgs.gov (n.d.) https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70184373
www.doi.gov (n.d.) https://www.doi.gov/oia/islands/navassa
Miller, M., Halley, R., Gleason, A.C.R. (1970) Reef Geology and Biology of Navassa Island. In: Riegi, B., Dodge, R.E. (eds.) (2008) Coral Reefs of the World, Chapter 10.
Burne, R.V., Horsfield, W.T., Robinson, E. (1974) The Geology of Navassa Island. Caribbean Journal of Science, 14(3-4), 109-111.
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