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| part = [[Lulu Toun]]
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'''Navassa Island''' ({{lang-fr|La Navasse}},  [[Haitian Creole leid|Haitian Kreyòl]]: ''Lanavaz'' or ''Lavash'') is a smaa, uninhabitit island in the [[Caribbean Sea]], claimed as an [[Incorporatit territory|unorganized unincorporatit territory]] o the [[Unitit States]], which admeenisters it through the [[Unitit States Fish an Wildlife Service|U.S. Fish an Wildlife Service]]. [[Haiti]], which haes claimed sovereignty ower Navassa syne 1801, an aa claims the island in its constitution.<ref>[http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&lp=fr_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.mae.gouv.ht%2fpays.htm Government of Haiti: Geography of Haiti (with French to English translation)]{{dead link|date=July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url = http://haitiforever.com/windowsonhaiti/navassa.shtml
|month = October | year = 1998
|title = Navassa Island: Haiti and the U.S. – A Matter of History and Geography
|author = Serge Bellegarde
|publisher = windowsonhaiti.com
|accessdate = 2008-02-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.oas.org/juridico/MLA/en/hti/en_hti-int-const.html
| title = Haiti: Constitution, 1987 (English translation)}}</ref>

== Geografie, topography an ecology ==
{{anchor|Geography}}

Navassa Island is aboot {{convert|2|sqmi|km²|1}} in aurie. It is locatit {{convert|90|nmi|mi km}} sooth o the U.S. naval base at [[Guantánamo Bay, Cuba|Guantanamo Bay]], [[Cuba]], {{convert|40|nmi|mi km}} wast o [[Jérémie]] on the sooth wast peninsula o Haiti,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/haiti/rock.htm |title=Whose Rock Is It? Yes, the Haitians Care |first=Larry |last=Rohter |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=October 19, 1998 |work=Port-au-Prince Journal |publisher=''[[The New York Times]]'' |accessdate=January 28, 2012 |quote= |ref= |separator= |postscript=}}</ref> an aboot ane-quarter o the wye frae Haiti tae [[Jamaica]] in the [[Jamaica Channel]]. It reaches an elevation o {{convert|250|ft}} at Dunning Hill {{convert|110|yd}} sooth o the lichthoose, Navassa Island Licht. This location is {{convert|440|yd}} frae the soothwastren coast or {{convert|655|yd|-1}} east o Lulu Bay. The island's [[latitude]] an [[longitude]] are {{Coord|18|24|10|N|75|0|45|W|type:isle_scale:30000_region:UM}}.

[[Image:Navassa Island Location.svg|thumb|left|Navassa Island is sooth o Cuba, east o Jamaica, an wast o Haiti. This cairt oreeginates wi the US govrenment an shaws the US claim on the island]]

The terrain o Navassa Island consists maistly o exposed coral an limestone, the island bein ringed bi vertical white cliffs {{convert|30|to|50|ft|1}} heich, but wi enough grassland tae support goat herds. The island is covered in a forest o just fower tree species: short-leaf [[Ficus|fig]] (''Ficus populnea'' var. ''brevifolia''), pigeon plum (''[[Coccoloba diversifolia]]''), mastic (''[[Sideroxylon foetidissimum]]''), an poisonwood (''[[Metopium brownei]]'').<ref name='CoRIS'>{{cite web  |author= CoRIS - NOAA's coral reef information system |title= Navassa Island |accessdate= November 16, 2012.  |publisher= National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  |url=  http://coris.noaa.gov/about/eco_essays/navassa |archive-date= 2012-11-02 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121102202601/http://coris.noaa.gov/about/eco_essays/navassa/ |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref name='Wildfish'>{{cite web|author= US Fish & Wildlife Service |title= Navassa National Wildlife Refuge |accessdate= November 17, 2012.|publisher= US Fish & Wildlife Service |url=http://www.fws.gov/caribbean/Refuges/Navassa/Navassa.jpg}}</ref>

Its topography an ecology are similar tae that o [[Mona, Puerto Rico|Mona Island]], a smaa limestone island locatit in the [[Mona Passage]], atween [[Puerto Rico]] an the [[Dominican Republic]]. It shares historical similarities wi Mona Island syne baith are U.S. territories, wur once centers o [[guanae]] minin, an presently are naitur reserves. Transient Haitian fishermen an ithers camp on the island but the island is itherwise uninhabitit.<ref name='CoRIS' /> It haes na ports or harbors, anly affshore anchorages, an its anly naitural resoorce is guanae; economic activity consists o subsistence fishin an commercial trawlin activities.<ref name='CIA'>{{cite web|author= Central Intellenge Agency |title= The World Factbook - Navassa Island |accessdate= November 16, 2012.|publisher= Central Intellenge Agency |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bq.html}}</ref>

Thare wur aicht species o native reptiles, aw o which are believed tae be, or tae hae been, [[Endemism|endemic]] tae Navassa Island: ''[[Celestus]] badius'' (an [[Anguidae|anguid lizard]]), ''[[Aristelliger cochranae]]'' (a [[gecko]]), ''[[Sphaerodactylus]] becki'' (a gecko), ''[[Anolis]] longiceps'' (an [[anole]]), ''[[Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis|Cyclura (cornuta) onchiopsis]]'' (a [[rock iguana]]), ''[[Leiocephalus eremitus]]'' (a [[Curly-tailed lizards|curly-tailed lizard]]), ''[[Tropidophis bucculentus]]'' (a [[dwarf boa]]), an ''[[Typhlops sulcatus]]'' (a tiny snake).<ref name=reptiles>Powell, Robert (2003). ''[http://www.avila.edu/bobpowell/6pownav.htm Reptiles of Navassa Island.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725093035/http://www.avila.edu/bobpowell/6pownav.htm |date=2013-07-25 }}'' Avila University.</ref> O these, the first fower remain common, but the last fower are likely [[extinct]].<ref name=reptiles/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Freemit airtins==
{{Sister project links|Navassa Island|voy=Navassa Island|wikt=no|v=no|q=no|b=no}}
* {{Wikiatlas|Navassa Island}}
* [http://www.estadodenavaza.galeon.com/ State O Navaza]

{{Wast Indies|state=collapsed}}
{{Geografie o North Americae}}

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