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Kingman Reef is a one-square-kilometer tropical coral reef located in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly half way between Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa at . It is the northernmost of the Northern Line Islands and an unincorporated territory of the United States, part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, administered from Washington, DC by the U.S. Navy. The reef is closed to the public.
It was found in 1789 by Captain Edmund Fanning of the ship Betsey. Captain W.E. Kingman described it in 1853. It was formally annexed to the United States on May 10, 1922 when Lorrin A. Thurston read this declaration on shore, "Be it known to all people: That on the tenth of May, A.D. 1922, the undersigned agent of the Island of Palmyra Copra Co., Ltd., landed from the motorship Palmyra doth, on this tenth day of May, A.D. 1922, take formal possession of this island, called Kingman Reef, situated in longitude 162 degrees 18' west and 6 degrees 23' north, on behalf of the United States of America and claim the same for said company."
Kingman is about 920 nautical miles south of Honolulu.
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Happy New Year #2010: American Samoa, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, Niue, Samoa
yuri_alvarez (Yuri Alvarez) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:48:30 -0000
Happy New Year #2010: American Samoa, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, Niue, Samoa
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matt_perez (Matt Perez) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:00:37 -0000
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LAST to enter New Year 2010 Samoa- Pago Pago, Samoa (Apia), Niue (Alofi), Midway Islands, Jarvis Isl., Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll
CIA - The World Factbook: Kingman Reef - Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.
