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83 relations: Amaranth (barquentine), American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project, American Samoa, Apia, Baker Island, Barquentine, Bureaucrat, Cemetery, Central Intelligence Agency, Coal, Cook Islands, Copra, Coral island, Cupola, Day beacon, Desert island, Entrepreneurship, Equator, Feral cat, Fertilizer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George W. Bush, Gin, Guano, Guano Islands Act, Habitat, Hawaii, Headstone, Henry Winkelmann, Hold (compartment), Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Howland and Baker islands, Howland Island, Human settlement, Imperial Japanese Navy, International Geophysical Year, John T. Arundel, Kingman Reef, Lagoon, Lens (hydrology), Lifeboat (shipboard), Line Islands, List of Guano Island claims, Midway Atoll, NASA, National Wildlife Refuge, Newcastle, New South Wales, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, Pago Pago, ..., Palmyra Atoll, Phosphate, Rain, Reef, Rogers Morton, Samoa, Samoa Time Zone, Samuel Gardner Wilder, San Francisco, Shipwreck, Shore, Southern Hemisphere, Submarine, Suicide, Surfboard, The World Factbook, Time zone, Topographic isolation, Tussock (grass), Under a Jarvis Moon, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United States Coast Guard, United States Department of the Interior, United States Exploring Expedition, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, United States government role in civil aviation, United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States Navy, USCGC Taney (WHEC-37), Veranda, Vine, White House, World War II. Expand index (33 more) »
Amaranth (barquentine)
Amaranth was a four-masted barquentine built by Matthew Turner of Benicia, California in 1901.
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American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project
The American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project was a plan initiated in 1935 by the U.S. Department of Commerce to place citizens of the United States on uninhabited Howland, Baker and Jarvis islands in the central Pacific Ocean so that weather stations and landing fields could be built for military and commercial use on air routes between Australia and California.
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American Samoa
American Samoa (Amerika Sāmoa,; also Amelika Sāmoa or Sāmoa Amelika) is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Samoa.
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Apia
Apia is the capital and the largest city of Samoa.
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Baker Island
Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean about southwest of Honolulu.
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Barquentine
A barquentine or schooner barque (alternatively "barkentine" or "schooner bark") is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts.
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Bureaucrat
A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can compose the administration of any organization of any size, although the term usually connotes someone within an institution of government.
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Cemetery
A cemetery or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Cook Islands
The Cook Islands (Cook Islands Māori: Kūki 'Āirani) is a self-governing island country in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand.
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Copra
Copra is the dried meat or kernel of the coconut, which is the fruit of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera).
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Coral island
A coral island is a type of island formed from coral detritus and associated organic material.
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Cupola
In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building.
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Day beacon
A day beacon is an unlighted nautical sea mark.
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Desert island
A deserted island or uninhabited island is an island that is not permanently populated by humans.
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business.
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Equator
An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel).
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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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Fertilizer
A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English; see spelling differences) is any material of natural or synthetic origin (other than liming materials) that is applied to soils or to plant tissues to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
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Gin
Gin is liquor which derives its predominant flavour from juniper berries (Juniperus communis).
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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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Habitat
In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.
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Headstone
A headstone, tombstone, or gravestone is a stele or marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave.
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Henry Winkelmann
Henry Winkelmann (1860–1931) was a notable New Zealand photographer.
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Hold (compartment)
View of the hold of a container ship A ship's hold or cargo hold is a space for carrying cargo.
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Honolulu Star-Bulletin
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin was a daily newspaper based in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
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Howland and Baker islands
Howland and Baker islands are two uninhabited U.S. atolls in the Equatorial Pacific that are located close to one another.
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Howland Island
Howland Island is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about southwest of Honolulu.
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Human settlement
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live.
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Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, "Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 until 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's defeat and surrender in World War II.
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International Geophysical Year
The International Geophysical Year (IGY; Année géophysique internationale) was an international scientific project that lasted from July 1, 1957, to December 31, 1958.
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John T. Arundel
John T. Arundel (1 September 1841 – 30 November 1919) was an English entrepreneur who was instrumental in the development of the mining of phosphate rock on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Banaba (Ocean Island).
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Kingman Reef
Kingman Reef is a largely submerged, uninhabited triangular shaped reef, east-west and north-south, located in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa at.
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Lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by barrier islands or reefs.
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Lens (hydrology)
A lens is a convex-shaped layer of fresh groundwater that floats above the denser saltwater, usually found on small coral or limestone islands and atolls.
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Lifeboat (shipboard)
A lifeboat is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship.
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Line Islands
The Line Islands, Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands, is a chain of atolls (with partially or fully enclosed lagoons) and coral islands (with a surrounding reef).
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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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Midway Atoll
Midway Atoll (also called Midway Island and Midway Islands; Hawaiian: Pihemanu Kauihelani) is a atoll in the North Pacific Ocean at.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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National Wildlife Refuge
National Wildlife Refuge System is a designation for certain protected areas of the United States managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Newcastle, New South Wales
The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie local government areas.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument
The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument is a group of unorganized, mostly unincorporated United States Pacific Island territories managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States Department of Commerce.
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Pago Pago
Pago Pago (Samoan:; pronounced pahng-oh pahng-oh)Harris, Ann G. and Esther Tuttle (2004).
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Palmyra Atoll
Palmyra Atoll is one of the Northern Line Islands (southeast of Kingman Reef and north of Kiribati Line Islands), located almost due south of the Hawaiian Islands, roughly one-third of the way between Hawaii and American Samoa.
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Phosphate
A phosphate is chemical derivative of phosphoric acid.
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Rain
Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity.
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Reef
A reef is a bar of rock, sand, coral or similar material, lying beneath the surface of water.
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Rogers Morton
Rogers Clark Ballard Morton (September 19, 1914 – April 19, 1979) was an American politician who served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of Commerce during the administrations of Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, Jr., respectively.
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Samoa
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa (Malo Saʻoloto Tutoʻatasi o Sāmoa; Sāmoa) and, until 4 July 1997, known as Western Samoa, is a unitary parliamentary democracy with eleven administrative divisions.
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Samoa Time Zone
SST is UTC-11 The Samoa Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eleven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-11).
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Samuel Gardner Wilder
Samuel Gardner Wilder (June 20, 1831 – July 28, 1888) was an American shipping magnate and politician who developed a major transportation company in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
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San Francisco
San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.
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Shipwreck
A shipwreck is the remains of a ship that has wrecked, which are found either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water.
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Shore
A shore or a shoreline is the fringe of land at the edge of a large body of water, such as an ocean, sea, or lake.
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Southern Hemisphere
The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is south of the Equator.
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Submarine
A submarine (or simply sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
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Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.
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Surfboard
A surfboard is an elongated platform used in surfing.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Time zone
A time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes.
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Topographic isolation
The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum great-circle distance to a point of equal elevation, representing a radius of dominance in which the peak is the highest point.
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Tussock (grass)
Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the Poaceae family.
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Under a Jarvis Moon
Under a Jarvis Moon is a 2010 documentary film about the young men, mostly of Hawaiian origin, sent in the 1930s and 1940s to colonize the Line Island of Jarvis and the Phoenix Islands of Howland and Baker.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.
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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 Exploring Expedition
The United States Exploring Expedition was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands conducted by the United States from 1838 to 1842.
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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 government role in civil aviation
The Air Commerce Act of 1926 created an Aeronautic Branch of the United States Department of Commerce.
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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 Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.
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USCGC Taney (WHEC-37)
USCGC Taney (WPG/WAGC/WHEC-37) is a United States Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter, notable as the last warship floating that fought in the attack on Pearl Harbor, although Taney was moored in nearby Honolulu Harbor not Pearl Harbor itself (a non-combatant vessel at Pearl Harbor, the US Navy tug, also remains afloat).
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Veranda
A veranda or verandah (from Bengali baranda) is a roofed, open-air gallery or porch.
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Vine
A vine (Latin vīnea "grapevine", "vineyard", from vīnum "wine") is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas or runners.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarvis_Island
