Interesting article on Navassa Island in today's New York Times online:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/30/opinion/30widmer.html?th&emc=th (you may
need to register to read it).
Highlights of interest to DXers:
Responsibility for Navassa has shifted from one government
agency to another, each uncertain of who should be in charge of our giant
guano lump. For a while Navassa was considered part of the Guantánamo naval
base. Then it was part of the Coast Guard. Since 1976, it has been lodged in
the Department of the Interior, an unlikely destination for an island that
could not be less internal.
There the story would appear to end, the forlorn tale of the
little island that couldnt. But just as Navassa survived war, piracy and
the rise and fall of empires, so it appears perfectly able to survive
bureaucracy. Now new explorers are visiting. The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration has undertaken a remote sensing experiment to create
a detailed topographical map of Navassa that will help monitor the islands
reaction to climate change, hurricanes and the rise of water levels around
the world. This seems a fitting result for a place that was never all that
comfortably on the map in the first place
Larry Burke WI5A
Brazoria County Texas
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