Island of Navasse
The island of Navasse (in English, Navassa Island ) is a uninhabited Makatea the Antilles located at the west of the island of Haiti. The island is asserted at the same time by Haiti and the the United States.
In spite of the protests haîtiennes, the island was asserted in the name of the United States in 1857 per Peter Duncan, under the terms of the provisions of the Guano Island Act of 1856. The important layers of Guano of the island were exploited commercially between 1865 and 1898.
On its side, the Haitian government maintains that this island formed integral part of its territory. Haiti reiterated its position in the article 8a of its Constitution of 1987, whose text follows:
8. The territory of the Republic of Haiti includes/understands:
- a) the Western part of the Island of Haiti as well as the adjacent Islands: Gonâve, the Tortoise, the Island with Cow, Cayenites, Navase, Large Caye and other islands of the Territorial Sea;
- It is limited to the East by the Dominican Republic, in North by the Atlantic Ocean, the South and the West by or the Caribbean Sea Caribbean Sea.
- b) territorial sea and the exclusive economic zone;
- c) air medium overhanging the Terrestrial and Maritime part.
- It is limited to the East by the Dominican Republic, in North by the Atlantic Ocean, the South and the West by or the Caribbean Sea Caribbean Sea.
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