Navassa Island: A Photographic Tour
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The opening of the Panama Canal put Navassa in the middle of the traffic lanes
between the Atlantic and Caribbean, and the Coast Guard built a lighthouse
on the island in 1917. Global Positioning Systems eliminated the need for the
lighthouse by 1996, and the Coast Guard turned Navassa over to U.S. Department
of Interior on January 16, 1997.
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Coastal and Marine Geology Program > Center for Coastal Geology > Navassa Island > History Tour U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/navassa/history/index.html Maintaned by Trent Faust - Webmaster Updated August 19, 2000 @ 04:27 PM (THF) |