Navassa Island

Navassa Island is an uninhabited island in the that is administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior of the United States of America as a National Wildlife Refuge.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: island in the Caribbean
  • Also known as: Île de la Navasse / Navassa Island”, “La Navase”, “Lanavaz”, “Lavash”, “Lavash Island”, “Navase”, “Navassa”, “Navaza”, “Navaza Island”, and “UM-76

Navassa Island

Latitude of center
18.4028° or 18° 24′ 10″ north
Longitude of center
-75.0156° or 75° 0′ 56″ west
Elevation
72 metres (236 feet)
United Nations Location Code
UM NAV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 246081075
Geo­Names ID
11695314
Wiki­data ID
Q25359
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Navassa Island” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Navassa
  • Arabic: جزيرة نافاسا
  • Armenian: Նավասա կղզի
  • Armenian: Նավասա
  • Armenian: Նավասսա կղզի
  • Azerbaijani: Navassa adası
  • Basque: Navassa uhartea
  • Bavarian: Navassa
  • Belarusian: Востраў Наваса
  • Belarusian: Наваса
  • Bengali: নাউসা দ্বীপ
  • Bosnian: Navasa ostrvo
  • Bosnian: Navasa otok
  • Bosnian: Navasa
  • Bosnian: Navassa
  • Bosnian: Ostrvo Navasa
  • Bosnian: Otok Navasa
  • Bulgarian: Наваса
  • Bulgarian: Остров Наваса
  • Catalan: illa Navassa
  • Catalan: Illa Navassa
  • Catalan: Navaza
  • Cebuano: Navassa Island
  • Chechen: Навасса
  • Chinese: Navassa-tó
  • Chinese: 納弗沙島
  • Chinese: 纳弗沙岛
  • Chinese: 纳瓦萨岛
  • Cornish: Ynys Navassa
  • Croatian: Navassa
  • Croatian: Otok Navassa
  • Czech: Navassa
  • Danish: Navassa
  • Dutch: La Navase
  • Dutch: La Navasse
  • Dutch: Navase
  • Dutch: Navassa eiland
  • Dutch: Navassa-eiland
  • Dutch: Navassa
  • Dutch: Navasse
  • Egyptian Arabic: جزيره نافاسا
  • Esperanto: Navasa Insulo
  • Esperanto: Navaso
  • Estonian: La Navase
  • Estonian: Navassa saar
  • Estonian: Navassa
  • Finnish: Navassa
  • French: Île de la Navase
  • French: Ile de la Navasse
  • French: île de la Navasse
  • French: Île de la Navasse
  • French: Île de Navassa
  • French: Île Navassa
  • French: La Navase
  • French: La Navasse
  • French: Navassa Island
  • French: Navassa
  • Gagauz: Navassa
  • Galician: Illa de Navassa
  • Galician: Illa Navassa
  • Georgian: ნავასა
  • German: Navassa Island
  • German: Navassa
  • German: Navaza
  • German: UM-76
  • Greek: Navassa Island
  • Greek: Νήσος Ναβάσα
  • Greek: Νήσος Ναβάσσα
  • Gujarati: નવાસા આઇલેન્ડ
  • Haitian: Lanavaz
  • Hebrew: האי נבאסה
  • Hebrew: נבאסה
  • Hebrew: נוואסה
  • Hindi: नावासा द्वीप
  • Hungarian: Navassa-sziget
  • Icelandic: Navassaeyja
  • Ido: Navassa
  • Indonesian: La Navase
  • Indonesian: Navassa Island
  • Indonesian: Navassa
  • Indonesian: Pulau Navassa
  • Interlingua: Insula Navassa
  • Irish: Oileán Navassa
  • Italian: isola di Navassa
  • Italian: isola Navassa
  • Italian: Isola Navassa
  • Italian: Navassa
  • Japanese: ナヴァッサ島
  • Japanese: ナバッサ島
  • Javanese: Pulo Navassa
  • Kannada: ನವಸ್ಸಾ ದ್ವೀಪ
  • Kazakh: Навасса аралы
  • Kazakh: Навасса
  • Kirghiz: Навасса аралы
  • Korean: 나바사 섬
  • Korean: 나배사 섬
  • Korean: 나배사섬
  • Latvian: Navasa
  • Latvian: Navasas sala
  • Limburgan: Navassa
  • Lingua Franca Nova: Isola Navasa
  • Lithuanian: Navasa
  • Low German: Navassa
  • Low German: Navassainsel
  • Luxembourgish: Navassa
  • Macedonian: Наваса
  • Malay: Pulau Navassa
  • Malayalam: നവാസ്സ ദ്വീപ്
  • Marathi: नव्हासा द्वीप
  • Min Nan Chinese: Navassa-tó
  • Northern Frisian: Navassa
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Navassa Island
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Navassa-øya
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Navassaøya
  • Norwegian: Navassaøya
  • Novial: Navasa Isle
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Nafāssa-Īeg
  • Ossetian: Навассæ
  • Panjabi: ਨਵਾਸ ਟਾਪੂ
  • Persian: جزیره ناواسا
  • Persian: جزیرهٔ ناواسا
  • Picard: Île éd la Navasse
  • Polish: Navassa
  • Portuguese: Ilha de Navassa
  • Portuguese: Ilha Navassa
  • Portuguese: Navassa
  • Portuguese: Navaza
  • Portuguese: UM-76
  • Romanian: Insula Navassa
  • Russian: Навасса
  • Russian: Остров Навасса
  • Sardinian: Ìsula Navassa
  • Scots: Navassa Island
  • Serbian: Наваса острво
  • Serbian: Наваса
  • Serbian: Острво Наваса
  • Serbo-Croatian: Navasa ostrvo
  • Serbo-Croatian: Navasa
  • Serbo-Croatian: Navassa Otok
  • Serbo-Croatian: Navassa
  • Serbo-Croatian: Ostrvo Navasa
  • Serbo-Croatian: Otok Navassa
  • Shan: ၵုၼ်ၼႃႇဝႃႇသႃႇ
  • Sicilian: Ìsula Navassa
  • Sinhala: නවස්සා දූපත
  • Slovak: Navassa
  • Slovak: Ostrov Navassa
  • Slovenian: Navassa Island
  • Slovenian: Navassa
  • Slovenian: otok Navassa
  • Slovenian: UM-76
  • Spanish: Isla de Navaza
  • Spanish: Isla Navaza
  • Sundanese: Pulo Navassa
  • Swahili: Navassa
  • Swedish: Navassaön
  • Swiss German: Navassa
  • Tagalog: Islang Navassa
  • Tamil: நவாசா தீவு
  • Tatar: Навасса
  • Telugu: నవస్సా దీవి
  • Telugu: నావాసా దీవి
  • Thai: Navassa Island
  • Thai: เกาะนาแวสซา
  • Tosk Albanian: Navassa
  • Turkish: Navassa Adası
  • Turkish: Navassa
  • Uighur: ناۋاسسا ئاراللىرى
  • Ukrainian: Навасса
  • Ukrainian: Острів Навасса
  • Urdu: Navassa Island
  • Urdu: جزیرہ ناواسا
  • Uzbek: Navassa oroli
  • Uzbek: Navassa
  • Venetian: Ìzoła Navassa
  • Vietnamese: Đảo Navassa
  • Western Panjabi: جزیرہ ناواسا
  • Wu Chinese: 纳瓦萨岛
  • Yoruba: Erékùṣù Navassa
  • Yoruba: Navassa Island
  • Yue Chinese: 納弗沙島

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Navassa Island”. Photo: USGS, Public domain.