Everything about The United States Minor Outlying Islands totally explained
The
United States Minor Outlying Islands, a statistical designation defined by
ISO 3166-1, consists of nine insular
United States possessions.
Palmyra Atoll is the only
incorporated territory of the United States. Currently, none of the islands have any permanent residents. Most recently, the
census of population of 1980 gives population figures for three of the islands:
Johnston Atoll (327),
Midway Atoll (453), and
Wake Island (302). The following censuses of 1990 and 2000 only note that there was no
indigenous population, which was also true for all previous censuses except that of
1940. The
Baker, Howland and Jarvis Colonization Scheme attempted to settle Americans on those three islands beginning in
1935, but all three islands were evacuated in
1942 as a result of
World War II.
The islands are grouped together entirely as a statistical convenience. They are not administered collectively, nor do they share a single cultural or political history beyond being currently uninhabited islands under the sovereignty of the United States.
They are collectively represented by the
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code UM. The individual islands have
ISO 3166-2 numerical codes, see .
The
Internet country code top-level domain (
ccTLD) "
.um" has historically been assigned to the islands; however, the .um ccTLD was retired in January of 2007.
The term "United States Minor Outlying Islands" was introduced in 1986. From 1974 until 1986, five of the islands (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Palmyra Atoll and Kingman Reef) were grouped under the term
US Miscellaneous Pacific Islands, with
ISO 3166 code PU (the code of Midway Atoll was MI, and the code of Johnston Atoll JT).
Airports
ICAO (
IATA) codes:
- PJON (JON) – Johnston Island Airport - Johnston Island
- PMDY (MDY) – Henderson Field (Naval Air Facility) – Sand Island
- PWAK (AWK) – Wake Island Airfield - Wake Island
- PLPA – Palmyra Airport – Palmyra Atoll - Cooper Island
- PBAR – Baker Island Airport
- PLUR – Jarvis Airport – Jarvis Island
- Kamakaiwi Field - Howland Island (1937 to about 1945)
- Kingman Reef: lagoon was used as a halfway station between Hawaii and American Samoa by Pan American Airways for flying boats in 1937 and 1938 (External Link
)
Ports
Three of the islands are listed with ports in the
World Port Index(External Link), with World Port Number:
56325 JOHNSTON ATOLL - Johnston Atoll
56328 MIDWAY ISLAND - Midway Atoll
56330 WAKE ISLAND - Wake Island
not listed WEST LAGOON - Palmyra Atoll
Baker Island, Howland Island and Jarvis Island have a small boat landing place only each. Kingman Reef and Navassa Island have offshore anchorage only.
Islands Table
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