TIL that the United States controls an island between Haiti and Jamaica called Navassa Island and that we have been in an over 150 year dispute with Haiti over control of the island. The United States took possession of the island through the Guano Islands Act
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Apparently the island is now run by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. And now down the rabbit hole I go to read about other islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act (for guano mining)
Here’s the wiki for the Guano Islands Act en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Isl…
@Blake_Allen13 Someday I am finally going to read up on why/how Haiti and Dominican Republic are two countries on the same island.
@Blake_Allen13 There should be resorts there, with flights full of vacationers.