Editing Jarvis Island (section)

===International Geophysical Year===
Jarvis was visited by scientists during the [[International Geophysical Year]] from July 1957 until November 1958. In January 1958, all scattered building ruins from the nineteenth-century guano diggings and the 1935–1942 colonization attempt were swept away without a trace by a severe storm that lasted several days and was witnessed by scientists. When the IGY research project ended, the island was abandoned again.<ref>The IGY station chief was Otto H Homung (d. 1958), who apparently died on the island and may have been buried there.</ref> By the early 1960s, a few sheds, a century of accumulated trash, the scientists' house from the late 1950s, and a solid, short lighthouse-like [[day beacon]] built two decades before were the only signs of human habitation on Jarvis.