9Navassa Island
Little Navassa Island is situated between Jamaica and Haiti. It spans an area of only three square miles. Still, experts insist it is a natural ‘haven for endangered coral.”
A group of scientists presently on the Global Reef Expedition discovered that there is an unexpectedly “rich ecosystem” here that has somehow managed to stave off any damage from climate change, overfishing, and pollution that have apparently impacted other coral reefs in the area. This was yet another island legally claimed by the USA in 1857 under the earlier mentioned Guano Act.
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