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. |
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. |
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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