PALMYRA, Atoll, Pacific Ocean

not permanently inhabited atoll (2 sq mi/5.2 sq km), central Pacific, one of the Line Islands, c.1,100 mi (1,770 km) SW of Honolulu. First visited by Americans in 1802, and later claimed by the Hawaiian kingdom (1862) and Great Britain (1889), it was annexed by the United States in 1898. Palmyra was under the jurisdiction of the city and county of Honolulu until Hawaii was granted statehood in 1959. The atoll is now under the control of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior.

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books on: Palmyra Atoll Pacific Ocean  - 14 results

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World War II Pacific Island Guide: A Geo-Military Study
Book by Gordon L. Rottman; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Islands Of The Pacific--Strategic Aspects, Military Geography--Pacific Area, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean, World War, 1939-1945--United States
...147, 153, 154 North Pacific Area, 447 Nukufetau Atoll, Ellice Islands...Hideyoshi, 273, 375 Ocean Island, 346-348...214 OYA Oichi, 382 Pacific Ocean, 1-5, 19 Palau...Philippines), 307, 308 Palmyra Island, 47-49 Panay...
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U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle: Ground and Air Units in the Pacific War, 1939-1945
Book by Gordon L. Rottman; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: United States--Marine Corps--Aviation, United States--Marine Corps--History--World War, 1939-1945, United States--Marine Corps--Organization, United States--Marine Corps--Registers, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean
...Solomon Is- lands Nanomea Atoll, Ellice Islands New...Nissan Island, Nissan Atoll, Green Islands, Solomon...and Kadena Fields lands Palmyra Island, Line Islands...Roi Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands Dyess...Medal of Honor in South Pacific; Finucane Field named...
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Climate, Environment and Society in the Pacific during the Last Millennium
Book by Patrick D. Nunn; Elsevier, 2007
Subjects: Climatic Changes--Environmental Aspects--Pacific Area--History, Climatic Changes--Pacific Area--History, Climatic Changes--Social Aspects--Pacific Area--History
...Climates of the Pacific islands and Ocean Some of the most...proxies (6180) of Pacific sea-surface temperature...in the tropical Pacific also show that temperatures...records from Tarawa Atoll in Kiribati (Cole...Patzold, 1986) and Palmyra Atoll in the central...
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Geography of the Pacific
Book by Otis W. Freeman; John Wiley & Sons, 1951
Subjects: Oceania, Pacific Area
Pacific High Commission...Ellice groups; Ocean Island see Chapter...Christmas . The Western Pacific High Commission...including Rose atoll and Swains Island...Howland, Jarvis, Palmyra, and Kingman Reef...development. SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION Because...
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Going Back: A Navy Airman in the Pacific War
Book by Charles Furey; University of Nebraska Press, 2004
Subjects: Flight Crews--United States--Biography, Furey, Charles--1923-, United States--Navy--Biography, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial Operations, American, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, American
...journey that will take us deep into the South Pacific and the beginning of our adventures in Bombing Squad- ron 106. PISS IN Palmyra Atoll should be easy enough to THE OCEAN find, Lieutenant Morrison says when we get...
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journal articles on: Palmyra Atoll Pacific Ocean  - 2 results

 
 
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Big Surf, Deep Dives, and the Islands: My Life in the Ocean
Journal article by David R. Stoddart; The Geographical Review, Vol. 88, 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...My Life in the Ocean by David R. Stoddart...love affair with the ocean began at a tender...in the lagoon of Palmyra Atoll in the Line Islands...landscape of any Pacific island and which...year exploring the Pacific for new and unknown...
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Assessing the Role of Climate Change and Human Predation on Marine Resources at the Fatu-Ma-Futi Site, Tutuila Island, American Samoa: An Agent Based Model
Journal article by Alex E. Morrison, David J. Addison; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 43, 2008
Subjects: American Samoa--Environmental aspects, Climate change--Social aspects, Climatic changes--Social aspects, Environment--Methods, Environment--Research, Environmental research--Methods, Shellfish--Environmental aspects, Shellfish--Protection and preservation
...reconstruction from Palmyra Island, in the equatorial central Pacific provides important...lagoon at Takapoto, Atoll (French Polynesia...Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association...variations in south Pacific island and ocean sea surface temperature...


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magazine articles on: Palmyra Atoll Pacific Ocean  - 3 results

 
 
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The Jinxed Sealift: Building the Pacific Island Air Bases
Magazine article by Scott MacDonald; Sea Classics, Vol. 33, October 2000
...swells in the open ocean and put on separate...locations. In the Pacific the situation was...development in the Pacific, but there had also...was forthcoming for Pacific bases, the priority...had never seen the atoll had written, and...Johnston Island, Palmyra, and Canton, carried...
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America's Coral Reefs: Awash with Problems; Government Must Acknowledge the Magnitude of the Crisis and Fully Engage the Scientific and Conservation Communities in Efforts to Solve It
Magazine article by Tundi Agardy; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 20, Winter 2004
Subjects: Coral reefs and islands--Research
...northwest Hawaiian Islands and Palmyra Atoll, for instance), all...Southeast Asian and Indian Ocean reefs by dynamite fishers...have not considered using ocean zoning outside of MPAs...Johnston Atoll in the central Pacific. Unlike many terrestrial...
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Toward a Sea Ethic: Expanding Our Idea of Community Is a First Step to Restoring the Seas around Us
Magazine article by Carl Safina; The American Prospect, Vol. 19, December 2008
Subjects: Aquaculture industry--Laws, regulations and rules, Aquaculture industry--Management, Environmental ethics--Management, Marine resources--Management, Marine resources--Protection and preservation
...from Hawaii to Palmyra Atoll, while students...with the whole ocean and the whole...assumed that the oceans creatures were...First, the ocean isnt just a...some of the oceans larger animals...Many depleted ocean creatures--from Pacific leatherback...


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encyclopedia articles on: Palmyra Atoll Pacific Ocean  - 2 results

 
 
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Palmyra , Atoll, Pacific Ocean
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PALMYRA , atoll, Pacific Ocean atoll (2 sq mi/5.2 sq km), central Pacific, one of the Line Islands , c.1,100 mi (1,770 km) SW of Honolulu. Palmyra has no permanent inhabitants. First...
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Hawaii , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...islets in the central Pacific Ocean, c.2,100 mi (3...Coral Reef Reserve. Palmyra atoll and Kingman Reef , which...the paradise of the Pacific" because of its spectacular...Chaminade Univ. and Hawaii Pacific Univ., at Honolulu...


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