United States Minor Outlying Islands

Map showing the location of the islands in the Pacific Ocean on the first two frames, the islands in the Caribbean Sea in the third to the right, and the City of Cyberterra in the rightmost frame (all the UMMOA islands are highlighted in red)

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 have 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 in 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 a real territory in Montevideo Convention terms, even though the entity is associated with real natural islands). They are not administered collectively (they are not a real country or state), nor do they share a single cultural or political history beyond being currently uninhabited islands under the sovereignty of the United States (they are not a real nation).

They are collectively represented today by the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code UM. The individual islands have ISO 3166-2 numerical codes, but the situation is highly irregular, since only 9 out of the 11 insular areas have ISO 3166-2 numerical codes.² The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) ".um" has historically been assigned to the islands; however, the .um ccTLD was retired in January 2007.³ The .um ccTLD, however, was not abandoned immediately.

The Invasion

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).⁴ Tallini is now the Governor of the UMMOA.

Tallini has succeeded in having this claim recognised juridically 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).⁵

Post-Invasion Period

With the growth of the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA) as a nation, what was formerly just a US territory, and an irregular territory at best, has begun to grow and diversify. The UMMOA today is more than just the physical USMOI, since the City of Cyberterra became the virtual capital of the UMMOA, and thus the virtual city has merged with the eleven original insular areas, and has become a very real twelfth insular area. When added to the UMMOA Community of Nations, the twelfth national component, Cyberterra can be considered the UMMOA's thirteenth national component.

On 6 August 2010, the fourteenth national component came into being, the Fifth World Community, an inhabited locality, but also the world's first diaxenospitia.

On 7 January 2010, the fifteenth national component came into being when the Governor of the UMMOA claimed a piece of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), a diaxenospitia of jetsam, rather than of buildings.

On 23 June 2011, the sixteenth national component came into being when the Governor of the UMMOA claimed a piece of every oceanic garbage patch, and launched the Multi-Oceanic Garbage Patch Treaty (MOGPT) website.

On 26 June 2011, the seventeenth national component came into being when the Governor of the UMMOA claimed a piece of all of the space debris, and and launched the Space Debris Treaty (SDT) website.

On 20 August 2011, with a great suggestion of the Hon. Ilya Pakhomov, the UMMOA decided to claim an 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23th, and 24th national component. Therefore the UMMOA now claims the following disappearing islands: Ghoramara Island (India), Lohachara Island (India), Bedford Island (India), New Moore/South Talpatti (India/Bangladesh), Tebua Tarawa (Kiribati), Bikeman Island (Kiribati) and Abanuea (Kiribati).

Atolls/Islands and Codes

UM Code	Atoll/Island	Amateur Radio Call Sign	CB Radio Call Sign	Claimed By	Continent(s)
um-ct	Cyberterra	IL6		UMMOA	Europe
um-ni	Navassa Island	KP1	247	US, UMMOA, and Haiti	North America
um-bj	Bajo Nuevo Bank	KP3		US, UMMOA, Colombia, Jamaica, and Nicaragua	North America
um-sb	Serranilla Bank	KP3		US, UMMOA, Colombia, Jamaica, and Nicaragua	North America
um-jv	Jarvis Island	KH5	273	US and UMMOA	Oceania
um-pa	Palmyra Atoll	KH5		US and UMMOA	Oceania
um-kr	Kingman Reef	KH5K	264	US and UMMOA	Oceania
um-jn	Johnston Atoll	KH3	262	US and UMMOA	Oceania
um-bk	Baker Island	KH1	260	US and UMMOA	Oceania
um-hi	Howland Island	KH1	260	US and UMMOA	Oceania
um-ma	Midway Atoll	KH4	71	US and UMMOA	Oceania
um-wi	Wake Island	KH9	278	US, UMMOA, and Marshall Islands	Oceania
um-con	Community of Nations			UMMOA	Various
um-5wc	Fifth World Community			UMMOA	North America
um-gpgp	Great Pacific Garbage Patch			GPGPT cosigners	Oceania
um-mogp	Multi-Oceanic Garbage Patch			MOGPT cosigners	Various
um-wesd	Whole Earth Space Debris			SDT cosigners	Various
um-gi	Ghoramara Island			India and UMMOA	Asia
um-li	Lohachara Island			India and UMMOA	Asia
um-bed	Bedford Island			India and UMMOA	Asia
um-nm	New Moore			India, Bangladesh, and UMMOA	Asia
um-tt	Tebua Tarawa			Kiribati and UMMOA	Oceania
um-bik	Bikeman Island			Kiribati and UMMOA	Oceania
um-ab	Abanuea			Kiribati and UMMOA	Oceania

UMMOA Airports

ICAO (IATA) [FAA]	Airport
PLUR	Jarvis Airport - Jarvis Island
PLPA [P16]	Palmyra (Cooper) Airport [1,2]- Palmyra Atoll - Tallini Island
PJON (JON)	Johnston Island Airport (closed 2005) [1] - Johnston Island
PBAR	Baker Island Airport
PMDY (MDY)	Henderson Field (Naval Air Facility) [1,2] - Little Sardinia Island
PWAK (AWK)	Wake Island Airfield [1,2] - Wake Island

• Kamakaiwi Field - Howland Island (1937 to about 1945)
• Kingman Reef: lagoon was used as a halfway station between Hawaii and American Samoa by Pan American Airways for flying boats in 1937 and 1938

UMMOA Protected Airports

ICAO (IATA) [FAA]	Airport
FJDG (NKW)	Diego Garcia NSF Airport [1,2, 3] - Wake Island

UMMOA Ports

World Port Index	Port
Not Listed	WEST LAGOON - Palmyra Atoll
56325	JOHNSTON ATOLL [1] - Johnston Atoll
56328	MIDWAY ISLAND [1] - Midway Atoll
56330	WAKE ISLAND [1] - Wake Island

• Baker Island, Howland Island and Jarvis Island have a small boat landing place on each. Kingman Reef and Navassa Island have offshore anchorage only.

Notes

1. US Census 2000 Population Summary — see Table 1.
2. ISO 3166-2:UM
3. Unused Domain Name for U.S. Isles Gone", MSNBC, 24 January 2007.
4. Micronation legally invades U.S. and annexes 11 islands/atolls", OpenPR.com, 7 May 2008.
5. UMMOA achieves real international recognition", PRLog.org, 26 July 2008.