Latitude: 18°6'N
Longitude: 67°54'W
A small, uninhabited island (7 miles [11 km] by 4 miles [6.4 km), comprising 13, 638 acres of land mass.
Major guanno production from caves in the cliffs surrounding the island. Phosphorite was mined in the 1877 to 1924 period.
References
Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 661, 705.
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