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Palmyra Island

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Palmyra Island

Coral atoll 1,600 km/1,000 mi southwest of Hawaii, in the Line Islands, South Pacific. It was part of Hawaii from 1862, but was excluded when Hawaii became a state in 1959. It was purchased by the USA from a Hawaiian family in 1979 and was used for the storage of highly radioactive nuclear waste from 1986. Palmyra is now a yacht stopover and a tourist destination.



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The warning was also in effect for American Samoa, Samoa, Niue Island, the Wallis and Futuna Islands, the Tokelau atolls, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Kermadec Islands, the Baker and Howland Islands, Jarvis Island, French Polynesia and the Palmyra Islands, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
The warning was also in effect for American Samoa, Samoa, Niue Island, the Wallis and Futuna Islands, the Tokelau atolls, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Kermadec Islands, the Baker and Howland Islands, Jarvis Island, French Polynesia and the Palmyra Islands, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
Robert Pitman, a marine biologist with NOAA, recently studied what may be a new beaked-whale species near Palmyra Island in the Pacific Ocean.
 
 
 
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