PalmyraAtoll Archive

Sharing the first 200 years of the Palmyra Atoll's history, through documents, photographs, and archival video, sourced from the Palmyra Atoll Digital Archive.

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#palmyraatoll Happy Holidays from the archive! Enjoy this photo of Santa on Palmyra in 1948, visiting children of the CAA colony stationed there. You can read more about them and all of Palmyra’s history in the archive, with more to come. We haven’t been posting much lately,…

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#palmyraatoll As the project to resurface Palmyra’s runway gets going, we’ll be sharing posts about it’s initial construction and history, including the many types of aircraft that have used it over the years. This photo is part of a new collection of images from the Fifth N…

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#palmyraatoll We love this painting by noted Hawaiian sailor and artist Herb Kane, titled, Pele's Voyage to Hawaii. Did you know the Hawaiian name for Palmyra is Honuaiākea, after the canoe the volcano goddess Pele used to sail to Hawaii? This name was assigned to the atol…

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#palmyraatoll 58 years ago today, President Kennedy signed Executive Order 10967, officially transferring control of Palmyra from the Navy to the US Department of the Interior. The atoll would remain privately owned until 2000, and it would be years before formal cleanup pro…

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#palmyraatoll Love this photo from the April 1925 issue of Mid-Pacific Magazine, showing an unknown man observing the local birds. By this time in its history, Palmyra was receiving regular visits from those adventurous enough to make the 1,000 mile journey from Hawaii. Ther…

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#palmyraatoll The October Newsletter is out! I know it’s been a quiet few months from the archive, but I’ve been collecting and cataloguing what I hope are valuable and interesting additions to our collection, which you can read about in the latest issue. If you’re not subsc…

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#palmyraatoll The August newsletter is out! If you’re not subscribed, head over to the archive and sign up!

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#palmyraatoll Happy Friday from the archive! This photo of CAA (forerunner to the FAA) employees newly arrived on Palmyra in 1948, comes from our extensive collection of material around the CAA colony. For nearly 2 years in the late 1940s, a group of men, women, and children…

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#palmyraatoll Hope you’re enjoying a cool beverage this weekend, just like these members of the USN Scouting Squadron VS-47, back in 1944! I took the image of the coke bottle seen on the left when I was on Palmyra back in January. Though the servicemen men are drinking some…

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#palmyraatoll The July Newsletter is out! If you’re not subscribed already, just visit the archive, and you’ll start getting monthly updates with al the latest acquisitions and updates to the archive!

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#palmyraatoll This old letter from 1912 may not look like much, but because of it, the USS West Virginia was dispatched on a secret mission to protect and officially plant a US flag on Palmyra! In it, Judge Henry Cooper of Hawaii (who owned Palmyra at the time) notifies the…

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