*Jarvis Island, Government
Names:
conventional long form:
none
conventional short form:
Jarvis Island
Digraph:
DQ
Type:
unincorporated territory of the US administered by the Fish and Wildlife
Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National
Wildlife Refuge System
Capital:
none; administered from Washington, DC
*Jarvis Island, Economy
Overview: no economic activity
*Jarvis Island, Communications
Ports:
none; offshore anchorage only - one boat landing area in the middle of the
west coast and another near the southwest corner of the island
Note:
there is a day beacon near the middle of the west coast
*Jarvis Island, Defense Forces
defense is the responsibility of the US; visited annually by the US Coast Guard
*Jersey, Header
Affiliation:
(British crown dependency)