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1857-07-01

Peter Duncan claimed a guano deposit at Navase for the United States

Haitian

It was Peter Duncan who declared to the Secretary of State that on 1 July 1857 he had discovered a deposit of guano at Navase, an unoccupied island of which he took possession in the name of the United States. The guano deposits were worked by a company until 1898. The ruins indicate that there was an important factory for this operation.

Rouzier tells this under the entry NAVASE ( la ).

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 309 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 309