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The demand for guano spurred the human colonization of remote bird islands in many parts of the world. Unsustainable seabird guano mining processes can...
Jarvis Island (category Pacific islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act)of the largest seabird breeding colonies in the tropical ocean, but guano mining and the introduction of rodents have ruined much of the island's native...
between mining companies. Captain Geo. E. Netcher of the Isabella informed Captain Taylor of its discovery. As Taylor had discovered another guano island...
Navassa Island (category Caribbean islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act)supervisors, a blacksmith shop, warehouses, and a church. Mining began in 1865. The workers dug out the guano by dynamite and pick-axe and hauled it in rail cars...
Cato Reef (section Guano mining)the guano on Lady Elliot Island, Wreck Reefs, Swain Reefs, Raine Island, Bramble Cay, Brampton Shoal, and Pilgrim Island to the Anglo-Australian Guano Company...
Phosphorus (section Bone ash and guano)phosphate production turned to the mining of tropical island deposits formed from bird and bat guano (see also Guano Islands Act). These became an important...
the island was an important source of guano before artificial fertilisers started to be mass-produced. Guano-mining operations started in the 1860s and...
Lady Elliot Island (section Mining for guano)the trees were removed, as well as 3 feet of top soil and guano. In 1874, the guano mining ceased, but the damage to the vegetation of the island was...
Clipperton Island (category Pacific islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act)assumed to be a result of the trench-digging method of phosphate mining used by guano hunters. The only land animals known to exist are two species of...
Bat Cave mine (redirect from Bat Cave guano mine)nitrogen-rich guano deposit within the cave for fertilizer. The U.S. Guano Corporation bought the property around 1957. Based on a reputable mining engineer's...
Nauru (section Effects of mining)exercised by Australia alone. The 1948 Nauru riots occurred when Chinese guano mining workers went on strike over pay and conditions. The Australian administration...
Lacepede Islands (category Guano trade)were mined for guano. Although much of the guano mined was by Western Australian industry, there was also extensive unauthorised mining by trading ships...
Its guano deposits were mined by the American Guano Company from 1859 to 1878. Laborers for the mining operations came from around the Pacific, including...
(NV-Ch-18) is a North American archaeological site previously known as Sunset Guano Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Loud Site 18. The cave is about 150 feet (46 m)...
or they could become miners and help in the mining of guano and other minerals. Realizing that mining would require intense labor, the majority of inhabitants...
Wreck Reefs (category Guano trade)Informal mining of this type probably took place in and before this period (1860s) with Crowther having said to have commenced removing guano from Wreck...
September 19, 1857, by Peter Duncan, an American sea captain, under the Guano Islands Act of August 18, 1856. The modest settlement was created to house...
Enderbury Island (redirect from Guano Island)Enderbury came in 1860, with guano mining. The Guano Islands Act of 1856 allowed Americans to claim islands which had guano deposits; Enderbury was one...- Fairfax Islands (section Mining of guano in the 1890s)published journal provides valuable information on some of the cays. The mining of guano (bird droppings) occurred on Lady Musgrave Island, Fairfax and North...
years later, he realized the guano potential of the island. The villagers transferred their labor force to a guano mining camp that operated from 1907...
- islands; commercial exploitation has yet to be developed. Industries: some guano mining Communications Airports: 3 total, 2 usable; none with runways over 2
- you’re saying, especially when you half suspect it was a load of pigeon guano. And it gets worse when they’re smiling. Chapter 7, “Tomb of Words” (p.
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