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When built, the airport was called Palmyra Atoll Airfield, and later Palmyra Island Naval Air Station as it was a former Naval airfield on the Palmyra Atoll in the Line Islands of the Central Pacific Area. The name for the airport comes from Henry Ernest Cooper Sr. (1857–1929) who owned Palmyra from 1911 to 1922.
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- U.S. trading ship Palmyra
Palmyra Atoll, coral atoll, unincorporated territory of the United States, in the Northern Line Islands in the west-central Pacific Ocean, about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southwest of Honolulu. It comprises some 50 islets with a combined area of 4 square miles (10 square km) and an average elevation.
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About Us. Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge was established on January 18, 2001, by the Secretary of the Interior and includes submerged lands and associated waters out to 12 nautical miles from the atoll. It is approximately 956 nautical miles south of Honolulu, about halfway between Hawaiʻi and America Samoa, and consists of a circular ...
The northernmost atoll in the Line Islands Archipelago halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa is Palmyra Atoll. Palmyra is a National Wildlife Refuge administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services in the Department of Interior as transferred from the Office of Insular Affairs to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on January 18, 2001.
Oct 8, 2020 · The Palmyra atoll was an uninhabited tropical paradise – until the rats arrived (Credit Island Conservation) Palmyra had been an isolated and tranquil Pacific atoll, until a 20th-Century ...
Over the last 175 years, the atoll has played a role in some of the key investigations of the 20th century, including the use of power spectra in describing wave behavior and the testing and storage of nuclear power. Scientific interest in the atoll dates to 1842 when researchers collected specimens of Palmyra’s flora and fauna as part of the ...
At Palmyra, TNC aims to provide other Pacific atolls with a model for understanding the essential elements keeping reefs healthy. With coastal erosion, sea-level rise, ocean warming and other impacts intensifying, low-lying coral islands like Palmyra are on the front line of global climate change.
