Editing Navassa Island (section)

==== National Wildlife Refuge ====
In September 1999, the [[United States Fish and Wildlife Service]] established the Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge, which encompasses {{convert|1344|acre|km2}} of land and a 12 nautical mile (22.2&nbsp;km) radius of marine habitat around the island. Later that year, full administrative responsibility for Navassa was transferred from the Office of Insular Affairs to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.<ref name="USGS">{{cite web|author=U.S. Geological Survey |date=August 2000 |publisher=U.S. Geological Survey|title=Navassa Island: A Photographic Tour (1998–1999)|access-date=November 18, 2012|url=http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/navassa|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119101317/http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/navassa/|archive-date=November 19, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="InteriorNI" />

The [[National Wildlife Refuge]] protects coral reef ecosystems, native wildlife, and plants and provides opportunities for scientific research on and around Navassa Island. Navassa Island features large seabird colonies, including over 5,000 nesting [[red-footed booby]] (''Sula sula''). Navassa is home to four endemic lizard species. Two other endemic lizards, ''[[Cyclura cornuta onchiopsis]]'' and ''[[Navassa curly-tailed lizard|Leiocephalus eremitus]],'' are extinct.<ref>{{cite web |author=Robert Powell |title=Island Lists Of West Indian Amphibians And Reptiles |url=http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/bulletin/vol51no2.pdf |access-date=July 15, 2012}}</ref>

Navassa Island NWR is administered as part of the [[Caribbean Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex]]. Due to hazardous coastal conditions and to preserve species habitat, the refuge is closed to the general public, and visitors need permission from the Fish and Wildlife Service to enter its territorial waters or land.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Navassa_Island/visit/plan_your_visit.html|title=Navassa Island: Plan Your Visit|publisher=U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fws.gov/southeast/pdf/fact-sheet/navassa-national-wildlife-refuge-english.pdf|title=Navassa NWR Fact Sheet|publisher=U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Navassa_Island/visit/permits.html|title=Navassa Island: Permits|publisher=U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service}}</ref>

After World War II, amateur radio operators occasionally visited to operate from the territory. Navassa is accorded "entity" (country) status by the [[American Radio Relay League]].<ref name=arrl>{{cite web |author= Joe Phillips |title= Ohio DXers Denied Descheo Island (KP5) Landing Permit |date= November 2, 2005 |access-date= November 17, 2012 |publisher= The ARRL Letter Vol 24 No 06 |url=http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2005-02-11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130105154332/http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2005-02-11 |archive-date= January 5, 2013 |df= mdy-all }}</ref> The [[callsign]] [[prefix]] is KP1.<ref name=arrl/>

Since it became a National Wildlife Refuge, [[amateur radio]] operators have repeatedly been denied entry.<ref name=arrl/> In October 2014, permission was granted for a two-week [[DX-pedition]] in February 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arrl.org/news/kp1-5-project-gets-permission-to-activate-navassa-island-kp1-in-january-2015 |title=KP1-5 Project Gets Permission to Activate Navassa Island (KP1) in January 2015 |date=22 October 2014 |publisher=ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio |access-date=31 March 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019083644/http://www.arrl.org/news/kp1-5-project-gets-permission-to-activate-navassa-island-kp1-in-january-2015 |archive-date=October 19, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The operation, designated K1N, made 138,409 contacts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arrl.org/news/k1n-navassa-island-dxpedition-is-ham-radio-history|title=K1N Navassa Island DXpedition is Ham Radio History|website=www.arrl.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115083048/http://www.arrl.org/news/k1n-navassa-island-dxpedition-is-ham-radio-history|archive-date=November 15, 2017|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

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File:NavassaLighthouse.jpg|upright|Navassa Island's lighthouse with the light keeper's quarters in the foreground
File:Lighthouse Keeper Residence Navassa Island.jpg|The ruins of Navassa Light keeper's quarters
</gallery>

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