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Isle Royale National Park preserves 132,018 acres (534.26 km2) of land-based wilderness. ^ Drummond Island comprises the bulk of Drummond Township, Chippewa County, Michigan. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the land area of Drummond Township is 334.3 km2, or 249.1 mi2, and its population was 1,049 in 2017.
Lists of islands; List of islands of the Great Lakes; Thousand Islands; List of islands on the Potomac River; List of islands of the United States by area; External links. The Master List of U.S. Islands including islands in rivers and very small islands not included on this list.
The United States took possession of the islands on March 31, 1917, and the territory was renamed the Virgin Islands of the United States. Every year, Transfer Day is recognized as a holiday, to commemorate the acquisition of the islands by the United States. Rear Admiral James H. Oliver was the first American governor of the islands.
In 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit upheld the District Court decision in Segovia v. United States, which ruled that former Illinois residents living in Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands did not qualify to cast overseas ballots according to their last registered address on the U.S. mainland.
The United States Virgin Islands, often abbreviated USVI, are a group of islands and cays located in the Lesser Antilles of the Eastern Caribbean, consisting of three main islands ( Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas) and fifty smaller islets and cays. [1] Like many of their Caribbean neighbors, the history of the islands is ...
The United States Minor Outlying Islands is a statistical designation defined by the International Organization for Standardization 's ISO 3166-1 code. The entry code is ISO 3166-2:UM. The minor outlying islands and groups of islands consist of eight United States insular areas in the Pacific Ocean ( Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island ...
Insular area. In the law of the United States, an insular area is a U.S.-associated jurisdiction that is not part of a U.S. state or the District of Columbia. This includes fourteen U.S. territories administered under U.S. sovereignty, as well as three sovereign states each with a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
509.2/km 2 (1318.8/sq mi) Map of U.S. Virgin Islands. Saint Thomas ( Danish: Sankt Thomas, Spanish: Santo Tomás, French: Saint-Thomas) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. Along with surrounding minor islands ...