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Geography
Total area: 1.6 km2; land area: 1.6 km2.
Comparative area: about 2.7 times the size of The Mall in
Washington, DC.
Land boundaries: none.
Coastline: 6.4 km.
Maritime claims:
Contiguous zone: 12 nm;
Continental shelf: 200 m;
Extended economic zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 12 nm.
Climate: equatorial; scant rainfall, constant wind, burning sun.
Terrain: low-lying, nearly level, sandy, coral island surrounded
by a narrow fringing reef; depressed central area.
Natural resources: guano (deposits worked until late 1800s).
Land use: 0% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 0% meadows
and pastures; 5% forest and woodland; 95% other.
Environment: almost totally covered with grasses, prostrate
vines, and low-growing shrubs; small area of trees in the
center; lacks fresh water; primarily a nesting, roosting,
and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine
wildlife; feral cats.
Note: remote location 2,575 km southwest of Honolulu in
the North Pacific Ocean, just north of the Equator, about
halfway between Hawaii and Australia.