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    Enderbury Island, also known as Ederbury Island or Guano Island, is a small, uninhabited atoll 63 km ESE of Kanton Island in the Pacific Ocean at 3°08′S 171°05′W...
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    waters. List of Guano Island claims 3°00′S 171°24′W / 3.000°S 171.400°W / -3.000; -171.400 Resture, Jane. "Canton Island (Kanton – Abariringa) Phoenix...
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    were claimed as insular areas on behalf of the United States under the Guano Islands Act of 1856. These claims were made by private individuals to the...
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    Canton Island (redirect from Kanton Atoll)
    Canton Island (also known as Kanton or Abariringa), previously known as Mary Island, Mary Balcout's Island or Swallow Island, is the largest, northernmost...
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    Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme (category Guano Islands Act)
    response to growing American influence through the Guano Islands Act, especially on Canton (later Kanton), where a commercial seaplane base was being established...
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    Phoenix Islands (category Pacific islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act)
    the United States laid claim to all the Phoenix Islands under the 1856 Guano Islands Act. However, when Kiribati became an independent republic in 1979...
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  • unincorporated territory claimed under Guano Act of 1856 1857 0.5 1.29 ----- Howland Island, unincorporated territory claimed under Guano Act of 1856 1857 0.6 1.55...
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  • Treaty of Tarawa (category Guano Islands Act)
    and Enderbury Islands Condominium, which had begun under the terms of the Guano Islands Act. In Art. 3 the US have reserved the right to maintain military...
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    Orona (category Pacific islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act)
    Kiribati. It measures approximately 8.8 km (5 mi) by 4 km (2 mi), and like Kanton, is a narrow ribbon of land surrounding a sizable lagoon with depths of...
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    McKean Island (category Pacific islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act)
    level. The centre of the island is depressed, with a shallow, hypersaline, guano-laced lagoon. Treeless, McKean harbours seven herbaceous species of plants...
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    Birnie Island (category Pacific islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act)
    Kiribati. It is located about 100 kilometres (62 mi; 54 nmi) southeast of Kanton Island and 90 kilometres (56 mi; 49 nmi) west-northwest of Rawaki Island...
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    Davos" (in German, French, Italian, and Romansh). Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Kanton Graubünden. 20 October 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2023. "Nationalratswahlen...
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