Lulu Town
{{Short description|Former human settlement on Navassa Island}}
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Lulu Town, also known as Lulu Ville, is a now uninhabited, former settlement on Navassa Island, claimed by both the United States and neighbouring Haiti, in the Windward Passage.
Overview
Navassa Island was claimed for the United States on September 19, 1857, by Peter Duncan, an American sea captain, under the Guano Islands Act of August 18, 1856.{{cite web |title=GAO/OGC-98-5 - U.S. Insular Areas: Application of the U.S. Constitution |date=November 7, 1997 |url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GAOREPORTS-OGC-98-5/content-detail.html |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=March 23, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927192012/http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GAOREPORTS-OGC-98-5/content-detail.html |archive-date=September 27, 2013 |df=mdy-all }} The modest settlement was created to house both mine workers and supervisors whose goal was the rich deposits of guano found on Navassa. This resource, gathered mainly from the interior of the island, was stored in Lulu Town for later shipment to the United States.{{Cite book |last=Hyles |first=Joshua |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1wpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA156 |title=Inter-American Relations: Past, Present, and Future Trends |date=2017 |isbn=978-1-4438-7390-1 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |location=Newcastle upon Tyne, England |pages=156–157 |chapter=Washington's Secret Colonies: The Bizarre Story of the Guano Islands Act |oclc=992343683}}
Mining operations on Navassa Island were halted and the island evacuated in 1899 during the Spanish–American War. In 1901 the Navassa Phosphate Co. filed for bankruptcy and abandoned Lulu Town and rest of the island.{{cite book|first1=Joseph|last1=Schwagerl|first2=Verónica|last2=Anadón-Irizarry|chapter=Navassa|title=Important Bird Areas in the Caribbean: Key Sites for Conservation|page=238|chapter-url=http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/IBAs/CaribCntryPDFs/navassa.pdf|date=2008|publisher=BirdLife International|location=Cambridge, England|editor1-last=Wege|editor1-first=D.C.|editor2-last=Anadón-Irizarry|editor2-first=V.}}
The town lies on Lulu Bay. Its ruggedness prevents boats from landing; such small boats as regularly ply the area are mainly fishing boats from nearby Haiti.{{cite report|title=Global Reef Expedition: Navassa, March 25–31, 2012 — Final Report|first=Andrew|last=Bruckner|publisher=Khaled Bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation|location=Landover, Maryland|url=https://www.livingoceansfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Vol-4-Navassa-GRE-Final-Report.pdf}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/navassa-island/ CIA Factbook]
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Category:Former populated places in the Caribbean
Category:Populated places established in the 1850s
Category:Populated places disestablished in 1901