Palmyra Atoll

1. United States v. Fullard-Leo, 331 U.S. 256 (1947)  (site info) 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. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?c... 2. Nature Group to Buy Pacific Atoll  (site info) Article about "Nature Conservancies" plans to buy the atoll. http://forests.org/archive/spacific/ngbuypac.htm 3. Palmyra  (site info) Short note on two voyages to the atoll from the personal pages of Kim Cobbs. http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~kcobb/palmyra.html 4. The Curse of Palmyra Island  (site info) Article about the aura of the islands in the light of past events and visitors' travelogues. Includes excerpts about the ownership of the island. http://www.labyrinth13.com/Palmyra.htm 5. Palmyra Atoll  (site info) The Nature Conservancy's introduction to their purchase to preserve fauna and flora of the atoll. With timeline, illustrations. http://nature.org/wherewework/asiapacific/palmyra/ 1-5 of 9. Next »