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Jarvis Island (territory of the US) People 1999
Population:
uninhabited
note:
Millersville settlement on western side of island occasionally used as a
weather station from 1935 until World War II, when it was abandoned;
reoccupied in 1957 during the International Geophysical Year by scientists
who left in 1958; public entry is by special-use permit from US Fish and
Wildlife Service only and generally restricted to scientists and educators;
visited annually by US Fish and Wildlife Service
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