Cooper of Hawaii from a purchase price of $750.00. In 1911, ownership of the island was granted to Judge Henry E. In 1855, a whaling ship was reported wrecked on Palmyra's dangerous reefs, but attempts to locate the ship and its crew turned up nothing. (Many visitors to the island found that swimming and even wading in the island's lagoons was completely out of the question because of the large shark population and their aggressive nature). This has been noted by every person who has ever ventured to the island, sometimes with fatal consequences. The coral reef and lagoons at Palmyra are also a breeding ground for gray and blacktip reef sharks whose aggressiveness is well known throughout the Pacific. Local fauna consists of mosquitoes and other insects, lizards, land and coconut crabs, a huge bird population, palm and coconut trees and mangrove bushes. The island lies well off of the major shipping lanes for vessels plying the Asian/American run and is geographically perhaps one of the remotest places on earth and one of the last few truly uninhabited islands left in the world.
On a nautical chart, Palmyra is but a tiny speck in the middle of the mass of blue that represents the Pacific Ocean. the west lagoon is entered by a channel which will only accommodate vessels drawing 4 meters or less of water much of the road, the landing strip and many causeways built during are unserviceable and overgrown. Lying six degrees above the equator, about fifty islets covered with dense vegetation, coconut trees, and balsa-like trees up to 30 meters tall. The isla nd measures approx imately a mile and a half in length by a h alf mile wide. Palmyra island's coordinates are 5 degrees, 52 minutes North, 162 degrees, 6 minutes West, placing it near the very center of the Pacific ocean or about 1000 nautical miles south-southwest of Hawaii in the North Pacific Ocean, or about one-half of the way from Hawaii to American Samo a. Navy tested nuclear weapons in the 1950s). (Perhaps the most famous of these is Bikini Atoll where the U.S. Hundreds of such atolls dot the massive area that is the Pacific ocean. The difference between an atoll and an island is that an atoll is formed by the growth of coral around the rim of an ancient ocean volcano that has sunk below the surface of the sea over eons of geologic time, giving the classic atoll a circular or horseshoe shape. Palmyra is one of the last uninhabited islands in the Pacific.Īlthough officially listed as an island, Palmyra is actually an atoll. This is as close to the show "LOST" as you can get!
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