mmonwealth in political union with the
US; federal funds to the Commonwealth administered by the US
Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs

Palmyra Atoll
incorporated territory of the US; privately owned, but
administered from Washington, DC, by the Fish and Wildlife Service
of the US Department of the Interior; the Office of Insular Affairs
of the US Department of the Interior continues to administer nine
excluded areas comprising certain tidal and submerged lands within
the 12 nm territorial sea or within the lagoon

Pitcairn Islands
overseas territory of the UK

Puerto Rico
unincorporated, organized territory of the US with
commonwealth status; policy relations between Puerto Rico and the US
conducted under the jurisdiction of the Office of the President

Saint Helena
overseas territory of the UK

Saint Pierre and Miquelon
self-governing territorial overseas
collectivity of France

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
overseas territory of
the UK, also claimed by Argentina; administered from the Falkland
Islands by a commissioner, who is concurrently governor of the
Falkland Islands, representing Queen ELIZABETH II; Grytviken -
formerly a whaling station on South Georgia - is a scientific base

Svalbard
territory of Norway; administered by the Polar Department
of the Ministry of Justice, through a governor (sysselmann) residing
in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen; by treaty (9 February 1920)
sovereignty was awarded to Norway

Tokelau
self-administering territory of New Zealand; note - Tokelau
and New Zealand have agreed to a draft constitution as Tokelau moves
toward free association with New Zealand; a UN sponsored referendum
on self-governance, in February 2006, did not produce the two thirds
majority vote necessary for changing the current political status

Tromelin Island
possession of France; administered by the
Administrateur Superieur of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands

Turks and Caicos Islands
overseas territory of the UK

United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges
unincorporated
territories of the US; administered from Washington, DC, by the Fish
and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of
the National Wildlife Refuge system
note on Palmyra Atoll: incorporated Territory of the US; partly
privately owned and partly federally owned; administered from
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