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Geography
Total area: 4.5 km2; land area: 4.5 km2.
Comparative area: about 7.5 times the size of The Mall in
Washington, DC.
Land boundaries: none.
Coastline: 8 km.
Maritime claims:
Contiguous zone: 12 nm;
Continental shelf: 200 m;
Extended economic zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 12 nm.
Climate: tropical; scant rainfall, constant wind, burning sun.
Terrain: sandy, coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef.
Natural resources: guano (deposits worked until late 1800s).
Land use: 0% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 0% meadows
and pastures; 0% forest and woodland; 100% other.
Environment: sparse bunch grass, prostrate vines, and low-growing
shrubs; lacks fresh water; primarily a nesting, roosting,
and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine
wildlife; feral cats.
Note: 2,090 km south of Honolulu in the South Pacific Ocean,
just south of the Equator, about halfway between Hawaii
and the Cook Islands.