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...

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

exploit the guano on Howland Island, with this claim recognized under the U.S. Guano Islands Act of 1856. However, when the United States Guano Company dispatched...

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...

1857, established claims regarding Baker Island and Jarvis Island, recognized under the U.S. Guano Islands Act of 1856. Beginning in 1858, several support...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Western Samoa. Unlike Atafu and Nukunono, no U.S. claims under the Guano Island Act were ever made on Fakaofu. Despite this, in 1979, as part of the Treaty...

the Guano Islands Act of 1856), neighbouring independent islands such as Dominica, and European states controlling their nearby dependent islands, such...

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

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...

outlying islands and groups of islands comprise eight United States insular areas in the Pacific Ocean (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Islands portal List of Guano Island claims List of islands Desert island Warne, Kennedy (September 2014). "A World Apart – The Southern Line Islands"...

Fanning Island." It is collected in his books Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories and The Early Stories. Kiribati List of islands of Kiribati List of Guano Island...

1859, the U.S. Guano Company claimed Duke of Clarance along with a number of other Tokelauan atolls under the U.S. Guano Islands Act. The U.S. State...

possession of Baker Island in 1857 under the Guano Islands Act of 1856. The island's guano deposits were mined by the American Guano Company from 1859 until...

ship Gambia. The islands were named the "Middlebrook Islands". Brooks claimed Midway for the United States under the Guano Islands Act of 1856, which authorized...

with several 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...