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Capital | administered from Washington, DC, by the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system |
Government | unincorporated territory of the US |
Area | 4.5 sq km |
Population | 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. Visited annually by US Fish and Wildlife Service. |
Internet TLD | .um |
Time Zone | UTC -11 |
Jarvis Island is one of the Line Islands, in Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean