The Guano Islands Act (11 Stat. 119, enacted August 18, 1856, codified at 48 U.S.C. ch. 8 §§ 1411-1419) is a United States federal law passed by the Congress...

uninhabited islands in the Pacific and Caribbean, totaling nearly 100, though some islands claimed under the Act did not end up having guano mining operations...

A number of islands were claimed as insular areas on behalf of the United States under the Guano Islands Act of 1856. These claims were made by private...

established claims in respect of Baker Island and Jarvis Island which was recognized under the U.S. Guano Islands Act of 1856. Beginning in 1858, several...

United States contested the British annexations, based on the U.S. Guano Islands Act of 1856, which allowed for very wide-ranging territorial claims. It...

the island through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The U.S. has claimed the island, as an appurtenance, since 1857, based on the Guano Islands Act of...

States Minor Outlying Islands. At one time, the United States laid claim to all the Phoenix Islands under the 1856 Guano Islands Act. However, when Kiribati...

Conspiracy, was stranded at Malden Island. Malden was claimed by the U.S. Guano Company under the Guano Islands Act of 1856, which authorized citizens...

Valentine White claimed the islands, by virtue of the Guano Islands Act; later that year, he transferred all interest in these islands to Charles Sterns, Joseph...

United States Guano Company to exploit the guano on Howland Island, with this claim being recognised under the U.S. Guano Islands Act of 1856. However...

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Geography portal Oceania portal Islands portal List of Guano Island claims List of islands Desert island The name means "East" in Russian. Armstrong, Terence...

Pierce passed the Guano Islands Act with the exclusive purpose of addressing American scarcity over guano. Under the Guano Islands Act, any piece of uninhabited...

Malden Island, which he named after his surveying officer. Starbuck Island was claimed by the United States under the 1856 Guano Islands Act, but was...

Congress enacted the Guano Islands Act that year, authorizing the president to take possession of unclaimed islands to mine guano. The U.S. has taken control...

filed a claim on Ducie Island (referring to it as 'Ducer Island') with the U.S. State Department under the Guano Islands Act. Daggett was instructed...

coconut palms from the islands of Manra, Orona and Nikumaroro. Islands portal List of Guano Island claims List of islands Desert island Brian Clark Howard...

approaching boat Stand of Pisonia on Flint Island Islands portal List of Guano Island claims List of islands Desert island Warne, Kennedy (September 2014). "A...

and Enderbury islands; the remaining Phoenix Islands were still claimed by the U.S. under the Guano Islands Act, but aside from Hull Island were either...

under the Guano Islands Act; claims ceded to Tuvalu. Pukapuka, Manihiki, Penrhyn and Rakahanga: claimed by the U.S. under the Guano Islands Act; claims...

the Guano Islands Act of 1856), neighboring independent islands, such as Dominica, and European states controlling the surrounding dependent islands, such...

claimed as "Kemins Island" by CA Williams & Co. of New London, Connecticut, under the American Guano Islands Act. No record exists of guano deposits ever being...

of the Pinnacle in the morning. Islands portal List of Guano Island claims List of reefs List of islands Desert island "Papahānaumokuākea Marine National...

States Guano Company in 1860, under the Guano Islands Act. However, there is no evidence that guano or guano mining was present on the island. Jennings...

W. Jennett under the provisions of the Guano Islands Act. Most claims made by the U.S. over the guano islands in this region were officially renounced...

the island from at least 1822. and it was claimed by the United States under the Guano Islands Act of 1856, though little actual mining of guano took...

the island 24 July 1898, the previous United States claim from 1889 according to the Guano Islands Act not being officially acknowledged. The island was...

1856 with the passage of the Guano Islands Act, causing many small and uninhabited, but economically important, islands in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific...

with a number of other islands. The claim was made under the U.S. Guano Islands Act of 1856, although there is no evidence that guano existed or was ever...

island in 1857, claiming it under the Guano Islands Act of 1856. Its guano deposits were mined by the American Guano Company from 1859 to 1878. Laborers...