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Jarvis Island
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Jarvis Island (0° 22' S - 160° 03' W)  This island is located about halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands.  Like many remote islands in the Pacific it provides excellent nesting and foraging habitat for seabirds and thus was once utilized for its guano.  Millersville was established in 1935 as a weather station, but was abandoned during World War 2.  The settlement was briefly reinhabited in 1957 by scientists in concurrence with the "International Geophysical Year".


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