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Palmyra Atoll's location in the Pacific Ocean, where the southern and northern currents meet, litters its beaches with trash and debris. Plastic mooring buoys and plastic bottles are plentiful. [97] The atoll is dominated by the coconut crab, the largest species of terrestrial invertebrate. [98]
Palmyra Atoll, an atoll in the North Pacific Ocean 960 nmi (1,780 km) south of Honolulu, coordinates , about halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa. The atoll has a total area of 1,949 km 2, of which 3.9 km 2 is land and 1,946 km 2 is water.
Brown boobies atop pier posts at Johnston Atoll, September 2005. The United States Minor Outlying Islands is a statistical designation applying to the minor outlying islands and groups of islands that comprise eight United States insular areas in the Pacific Ocean (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island) and one ...
The remaining three—Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, and Palmyra Atoll—are territories of the United States grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands. The Line Islands, all of which were formed by volcanic activity, are one of the longest island chains in the world, stretching 2,350 km (1,460 mi) from northwest to southeast.
The atoll is an American wildlife refuge almost due south of the Hawaiian Islands, roughly one-third of the way between Hawaii and American Samoa. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of ...
According to a press release from the Zoological Society of London, six sihek (Guam kingfisher) are living in the Palmyra Atoll tropical forests, which is thanks to the work done by the Sihek ...
Coconut crab on Palmyra Atoll B. latro is both the largest living terrestrial arthropod and the largest living terrestrial invertebrate. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Reports of its size vary, but most sources give a body length up to 40 cm (16 in), [ 14 ] a weight up to 4.1 kg (9 lb), and a leg span more than 0.91 m (3 ft), [ 15 ] with males generally being ...
Kingman Reef, Jarvis Island and Palmyra Atoll are part of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The reefs in the Gilbert Islands are exposed to the effects of pollution and over-utilisation of the reef resources by the residents of the islands, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] which is similar to the threats to the Coral reefs of Tuvalu ...