United States Minor Outlying Islands

Map showing the location of the islands in the Pacific Ocean on the right, and the islands in the Caribbean Sea on the left (all UMMOA islands highlighted in black)

The United States Minor Outlying Islands (USMOI), a statistical designation defined by the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 3166-1 code, consists of eleven United States insular areas.

Palmyra Atoll is the only incorporated territory. As of 2008, none of the islands has any permanent residents. The only human population consists of temporarily stationed scientific and military personnel. The 2000 census counted 315 people on Johnston Atoll and 1 person on Wake Island.¹ There has been no indigenous population, except at the 1940 census. The Baker, Howland and Jarvis Colonization Scheme attempted to settle Americans on those three islands beginning in 1935, but all three islands were evacuated in 1942 as a result of World War II.

The term "United States Minor Outlying Islands" was introduced in 1986. From 1974 until 1986, five of the islands (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Palmyra Atoll and Kingman Reef) were grouped under the term US Miscellaneous Pacific Islands, with ISO 3166 code PU (the code of Midway Atoll was MI, and the code of Johnston Atoll JT).

The islands are grouped together entirely as a statistical convenience. They are not administered collectively, nor do they share a single cultural or political history beyond being currently uninhabited islands under the sovereignty of the United States.

They are collectively represented today by the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code UM. The individual islands have ISO 3166-2 numerical codes, see ISO 3166-2:UM. The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) ".um" has historically been assigned to the islands; however, the .um ccTLD was retired in January 2007.² The .um ccTLD, however, was not abandoned immediately.

On 6 May 2008 with Cesidian Root officers, Cesidio Tallini claims to have invaded the .UM ccTLD in the Cesidian Root, i.e. United States namespace, and to have legally annexed the United States Minor Outlying Islands (USMOI). He renamed the islands the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA).³ Tallini is now the Governor of the UMMOA.

Tallini has succeeded in having this claim recognised to a degree. On 22 July 2008 the Supreme Council of the Presidency of the International States Parliament for Safety and Peace (ISPSP), New Society of the Nations, with the approval of His Excellency The Lord President, Monsignor Senator Viktor Busà, granted Accreditation and Official Status of Incorporation to the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA), also known as the Arcipelago Multioceanico delle Micronazioni Unite (AMOMU), with seat in the Caribbean Sea. The UMMOA is now recognised under international law and the Vienna Convention of 18 April 1961 (1963).⁴

Atolls/Islands and Codes

Code	Atoll/Island
bj	Bajo Nuevo Bank
bk	Baker Island
hi	Howland Island
jn	Johnston Atoll
jv	Jarvis Island
kr	Kingman Reef
ma	Midway Atoll
ni	Navassa Island
pa	Palmyra Atoll
sb	Serranilla Bank
wi	Wake Island

UMMOA Airports

ICAO (IATA)	Airport
PBAR	Baker Island Airport
PJON (JON)	Johnston Island Airport - Johnston Island
PLPA	Palmyra Airport - Palmyra Atoll - Tallini Island
PLUR	Jarvis Airport - Jarvis Island
PMDY (MDY)	Henderson Field (Naval Air Facility) - Little Sardinia Island
PWAK (AWK)	Wake Island Airfield - Wake Island

UMMOA Ports

World Port Index	Port
56325	JOHNSTON ATOLL - Johnston Atoll
56328	MIDWAY ISLAND - Midway Atoll
56330	WAKE ISLAND - Wake Island
Not Listed	WEST LAGOON - Palmyra Atoll

References

• US Census 2000 Population Summary — see Table 1.
• Unused Domain Name for U.S. Isles Gone", MSNBC, 24 January 2007.
• Micronation legally invades U.S. and annexes 11 islands/atolls", OpenPR.com, 7 May 2008.
• UMMOA achieves real international recognition", PRLog.org, 26 July 2008.