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Jarvis Island encompasses approximately 1,100 acres of emergent reef and land and 36,342 acres of submerged lands. Jarvis Island and surrounding waters out to 3 nautical miles are currently managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Pacific Remote Island Area Refuge Complex, and is currently closed to all uses.
Jarvis Island is an uninhabited island in Micronesia, geographically part of the Line Islands. It is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States.
Jarvis Island is an uninhabited 4.5 square kilometer coral island in the Line Island group near the equator, about 2,200 km south of Honolulu, Hawaii. It was discovered in 1821 by Captain Brown aboard the British ship Eliza Frances. The United States claimed possession of Jarvis under the Guano Islands Act of 1856.
