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Palmyra Atoll, is an incorporated but uninhabited territory with a unique status of being privately owned (by The Nature Conservancy), but administered by the United States government. The atoll is 4.6 square miles (12 km²) and it is located in the Northern Pacific Ocean at .
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Geographically, Palmyra is one of the Northern Line Islands (southeast of Kingman Reef and north of Kiribati Line Islands), located almost due south of the Hawaiian Islands, roughly halfway between Hawai‘i and American Samoa. Its 9 miles (14.5 km) of coastline has one anchorage known as West Lagoon. It consists of an extensive reef, two shallow lagoons, and some 50 sand and reef-rock islets and bars covered with vegetation—mostly coconut trees, Scaevola, and tall Pisonia trees.
Most islets are not separate, but connected. Exceptions are Sand Island in the West and Barren Island in the East. The largest island is Cooper Island in the North, followed by Kaula Island in the South. The northern arch of islets is formed by Strawn Island, Cooper Island, Aviation Island, Quail Island, Whippoorwill Island, followed in the East by Eastern Island, Papala Island, and Pelican Island, and in the South by Bird Island, Holei Island, Engineer island, Marine Island, Kaula Island, Paradise Island and Home Island (clockwise). Average annual rainfall is approximately 175 inches (4,445 mm) per year.
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Dependent Areas :: United States
RT @SEA_Seamans: palmyra atoll/ we stayed but a few days/ why not forever? I ask myself that everyday! Fair winds sailors on the Seamans!
HillShmill (Hillary Shoreland) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:24:27 -0000
RT @SEA_Seamans: palmyra atoll/ we stayed but a few days/ why not forever? I ask myself that everyday! Fair winds sailors on the Seamans!
palmyra atoll/ hole in pacific ocean/ where do trees come from?
SEA_Seamans (Robert C Seamans) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:21:10 -0000
palmyra atoll/ hole in pacific ocean/ where do trees come from?
palmyra atoll/ we stayed but a few days/ why not forever?
SEA_Seamans (Robert C Seamans) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:20:53 -0000
palmyra atoll/ we stayed but a few days/ why not forever?
CIA - The World Factbook: Palmyra Atoll - Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.
Nature Group to Buy Pacific Atoll - Article about Nature Conservancies plans to buy the atoll.
Palmyra Atoll - The Nature Conservancy's introduction to their purchase to preserve fauna and flora of the atoll. With timeline, illustrations.
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Palmyra Atoll: Rainforest of the Sea - A webcast photographic expedition to Palmyra Atoll, 1000 miles south of Hawaii. Features history and photography and video of coral reefs and Palmyra's wildlife.
Palmyra Island Monthly Coral Oxygen Isotope Data - 112-year, monthly-resolved coral record, gathered by Kim Cobb and Chris Charles.
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Palmyra: Pacific Paradise - NPR radio feature on the atoll (July 2000, by Alex Chadwick).
The Curse of Palmyra Island - Article about the aura of the islands in the light of past events and visitors' travelogues. Includes excerpts about the ownership of the island.
United States v. Fullard-Leo, 331 U.S. 256 (1947) - Supreme Court's 1947 decision rejecting the government's 1939 claim to the atoll after review of the occupany of the uninhabited island in the last hundred years.
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