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Navassa Island (French: La Navase, Haitian Kreyòl: Lanavaz or Lavash) is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea, and is an unorganized unincorporated territory of the United States, which administers it through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The island is also claimed by Haiti.

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Navassa Island [more]
Brief introduction to the island including photographic tour and history.
http://members.aol.com/davidpb4/navassa.html

Navassa Island (U.S. Minor Outlying Islands) [more]
Unofficial flag of Navassa designed by Skip Wheeler.
http://flagspot.net/flags/um-navsa.html

Navassa Island: A Photographic Tour [more]
Several thematic photographic tours compiled from photographs taken by geologists surveying the island.
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/navassa/

Navassa Remote Sensing Experiment (NASA-GSFC) [more]
Gives details about a mapping experiment using satellite data.
http://denali.gsfc.nasa.gov/navassa/

Poop Dreams [more]
Article from Baltimore City Paper about the 19th-century guano mining and recent attempts to claim ownership of the island under the Guano Act. (February 21, 2001)
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/misctopic/navassa/poop.htm

University of Texas Libraries - Navassa Island Maps [more]
Country, city and thematic maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, along with links to maps on other web sites.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/navassa_island.html