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80 relations: Amateur radio, American Civil War, American Radio Relay League, Anguidae, Anolis, Baltimore, Barque, Benjamin Harrison, Boquerón, Cabo Rojo, Call sign, Caribbean Sea, Celestus, Christopher Columbus, Coccoloba diversifolia, Cochran's croaking gecko, Coral, Cuba, Curly-tailed lizards, Cyclura, Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis, Dactyloidae, Dominican Republic, DX-pedition, Dynamite, Elkhorn coral, Endemism, Extinction, Feral cat, Feral pig, Ficus, Free-ranging dog, Gecko, Guano, Guano Islands Act, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Haiti, Harvard University, Hispaniola, Insular area, Insular Cases, Isla de Mona, Island, Jamaica, Jamaica Channel, James Buchanan, Limestone, List of FIPS country codes, List of Guano Island claims, Lulu Town, ..., Maryland, Metopium brownei, Metres above sea level, Mona Passage, Navassa curly-tailed lizard, Navassa Island Light, Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge, Ocean Conservancy, Prefix, Puerto Rico, Sideroxylon foetidissimum, Spanish–American War, Sphaerodactylus, Supreme Court of the United States, Territorial dispute, The New York Times, Treaty of Ryswick, Tropidophiidae, Tropidophis bucculentus, Typhlops sulcatus, Unincorporated territories of the United States, United States, United States Coast Guard, United States Department of the Interior, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Lighthouse Service, United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States Miscellaneous Caribbean Islands, Washington, D.C., Windward Passage. Expand index (30 more) »
Amateur radio
Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, describes the use of radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communication.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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American Radio Relay League
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the largest membership association of amateur radio enthusiasts in the USA.
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Anguidae
Anguidae refers to a large and diverse family of lizards native to the Northern Hemisphere.
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Anolis
Anolis is a genus of anoles, lizards in the family Dactyloidae.
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.
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Barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) rigged fore-and-aft.
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Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893.
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Boquerón, Cabo Rojo
Boquerón is a beach village located in the city of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.
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Call sign
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique designation for a transmitter station.
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Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
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Celestus
Celestus is a genus of anguid lizards containing 29 living species and one extinct species.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (before 31 October 145120 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer.
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Coccoloba diversifolia
Coccoloba diversifolia, commonly known as pigeonplum, doveplum, pigeon Seagrape or tietongue, is a species of the genus Coccoloba native to coastal areas of the Caribbean, Central America (Belize, Guatemala), southern Mexico, southern Florida (coastal regions from Cape Canaveral to the Florida Keys) and The Bahamas.
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Cochran's croaking gecko
Cochran's croaking gecko (Aristelliger cochranae), also commonly known as Cochran's Caribbean gecko and the Navassa gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae.
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Coral
Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria.
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
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Curly-tailed lizards
The curly-tailed lizards belong to the family Leiocephalidae. One of the defining features of these lizards is that, when approached, their tail curls over.
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Cyclura
Cyclura is a genus of lizards in the family Iguanidae.
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Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis
The Navassa Island iguana (Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis) was a subspecies of rhinoceros iguana that was found on the Caribbean island of Navassa.
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Dactyloidae
Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.
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DX-pedition
A DX-pedition is an expedition to what is considered an exotic place by amateur radio operators, perhaps because of its remoteness, access restrictions or simply because there are very few radio amateurs active from that place.
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Dynamite
Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay) and stabilizers.
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Elkhorn coral
Elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) is a prominent Caribbean reef-building coral, although current populations are still struggling to recover from white band disease outbreak.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
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Feral cat
A feral cat is a cat that lives outdoors and has had little or no human contact.
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Feral pig
The feral pig (from Latin fera, "a wild beast") is a pig (Sus scrofa) living in the wild, but which has descended from escaped domesticated individuals in both the Old and New Worlds.
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Ficus
Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.
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Free-ranging dog
A free-ranging dog is a dog that is not confined to a yard or house.
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Gecko
Geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world.
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Guano
Guano (from Quechua wanu via Spanish) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds and bats.
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Guano Islands Act
The Guano Islands Act (enacted August 18, 1856, codified at §§ 1411-1419) is a United States federal law passed by the U.S. Congress that enables citizens of the United States to take possession of unclaimed islands containing guano deposits.
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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB (also called GTMO because of the abbreviation of Guantanamo or Gitmo because of the common pronunciation of this word by the U.S. military), is a United States military base located on 120 square kilometres (45 sq mi) of land and water at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which the U.S. leased for use as a coaling station and naval base in 1903 for $2,000 in gold per year until 1934, when the payment was set to match the value in gold in dollars; in 1974, the yearly lease was set to $4,085.
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Guantánamo Bay
Guantánamo Bay (Bahía de Guantánamo) is a bay located in Guantánamo Province at the southeastern end of Cuba.
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Haiti
Haiti (Haïti; Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Hispaniola
Hispaniola (Spanish: La Española; Latin and French: Hispaniola; Haitian Creole: Ispayola; Taíno: Haiti) is an island in the Caribbean island group, the Greater Antilles.
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Insular area
An insular area of the United States is a U.S. territory that is neither a part of one of the 50 states nor of a Federal district.
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Insular Cases
The Insular Cases are a series of opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1901, about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War.
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Isla de Mona
Mona (Isla de la Mona) is the third-largest island of the Puerto Rican archipelago, after the main island of Puerto Rico and Vieques.
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.
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Jamaica Channel
The Jamaica Channel is a strait separating the islands of Jamaica and Hispaniola, in the Caribbean Sea.
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James Buchanan
James Buchanan Jr. (April 23, 1791June 1, 1868) was an American politician who served as the 15th President of the United States (1857–61), serving immediately prior to the American Civil War.
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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List of FIPS country codes
This is a list of FIPS 10-4 country codes for Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions.
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List of Guano Island claims
The United States claimed a number of islands as insular areas under the Guano Islands Act of 1856.
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Lulu Town
Lulu Town is a now uninhabited, former settlement on Navassa Island, claimed by both the United States and neighbouring Haiti, in the Caribbean.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.
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Metopium brownei
Metopium brownei (also known as chechem, chechen, or black poisonwood) is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family.
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Metres above sea level
Metres above mean sea level (MAMSL) or simply metres above sea level (MASL or m a.s.l.) is a standard metric measurement in metres of the elevation or altitude of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level.
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Mona Passage
The Mona Passage (Canal de la Mona) is a strait that separates the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.
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Navassa curly-tailed lizard
The Navassa curly-tailed lizard (Leiocephalus eremitus) is an extinct lizard species from the family of curly-tailed lizards (Leiocephalidae).
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Navassa Island Light
Navassa Island Light is a deactivated lighthouse on Navassa Island, which lies in the Caribbean Sea at the south end of the Windward Passage between the islands of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) to the east and Cuba and Jamaica to the west.
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Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge
Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge protects coral reef ecosystems, native wildlife and plants, as well as provides opportunities for scientific research on and around Navassa Island.
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Ocean Conservancy
Ocean Conservancy (founded as The Delta Corporation) is a nonprofit environmental advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., United States.
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Prefix
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.
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Sideroxylon foetidissimum
Sideroxylon foetidissimum, commonly known as false mastic or yellow mastic, is a species of flowering plant in the chicle family, Sapotaceae.
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Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War (Guerra hispano-americana or Guerra hispano-estadounidense; Digmaang Espanyol-Amerikano) was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898.
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Sphaerodactylus
Sphaerodactylus is a genus of geckos from the Americas that are distinguished from other Gekkota by their small size, by their round, rather than vertical, eye pupils, and by each digit terminating in a single, round adhesive pad or scale, from which their name (Sphaero.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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Territorial dispute
A territorial dispute is a disagreement over the possession/control of land between two or more territorial entities or over the possession or control of land, usually between a new state and the occupying power.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Treaty of Ryswick
The Treaty or Peace of Ryswick, also known as The Peace of Rijswijk was a series of agreements signed in the Dutch city of Rijswijk between 20 September and 30 October 1697, ending the 1689-97 Nine Years War between France and the Grand Alliance of England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic.
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Tropidophiidae
The Tropidophiidae, common name dwarf boas or thunder snakes, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found from Mexico and the West Indies south to southeastern Brazil.
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Tropidophis bucculentus
Tropidophis bucculentus, the Navassa Island dwarf boa, was a nonvenomous dwarf boa species endemic to Navassa Island.
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Typhlops sulcatus
Typhlops sulcatus, the sulcate blind snake or island worm snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.
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Unincorporated territories of the United States
Under United States law, an unincorporated territory is an area controlled by the United States government which is not part of (i.e., "incorporated" in) the United States.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services.
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United States Department of the Interior
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is the United States federal executive department of the U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of the United States.
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United States Fish and Wildlife Service
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is an agency of the federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats.
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United States Lighthouse Service
The United States Lighthouse Service, also known as the Bureau of Lighthouses, was the agency of the United States Government and the general lighthouse authority for the United States from the time of its creation in 1910 as the successor of the United States Lighthouse Board until 1939 when it was merged into the United States Coast Guard.
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United States Minor Outlying Islands
The United States Minor Outlying Islands, a statistical designation defined by the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 3166-1 code.
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United States Miscellaneous Caribbean Islands
The United States Miscellaneous Caribbean Islands is an obsolete collective term for the territories currently or formerly controlled by the United States in the Caribbean Sea.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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Windward Passage
The Windward Passage (Passage du Vent; Paso de los Vientos) is a strait in the Caribbean Sea, between the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navassa_Island
