evidence: Found in the South Pacific, American Somoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States. Administered by the US Department of Interior, it consists of five volcanic islands and two coral atolls. The United States gained control of the islands in 1900 after the land was ceded to them by the Tutuila, a collection of Samoan chiefs and elders. [...] Jarvis Island is another uninhabited territory of the United States that can be found deep in the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the islands belonging to the United States Minor Outlying Islands and is administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the National Wildlife Refuge System. The island was officially claimed by the British Empire in the middle of the 19th century, but nothing developed beyond that. In 1935, the United States took control of the island without the British hardly noticing. [...] Navassa Island is a small, uninhabited island located in the Caribbean Sea between Haiti and Jamaica. Originally controlled by Spain until 1801, Navassa was later claimed by the US in 1857. This move did little to upset the Spanish, who paid next to no attention to the island to begin with.