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National Trade Data Bank
ITEM ID     : CI WOFACT WO0186
DATE        : Oct 28, 1994
 
AGENCY      : CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PROGRAM     : WORLD FACTBOOK
TITLE       : World Factbook: Palmyra Atoll
 
Source key      : CI 
Program key     : CI WOFACT 
Update sched.   : Annually         
Data type       : TEXT 
End year        : 1994
Date of record  : 19941020
Keywords 3      :  
Keywords 3      : | Palmyra Atoll 
 
 
                               Palmyra Atoll
 
 
                                  Header
 
Affiliation:
     (territory of the US)
 
                                 Geography
 
Location:
     Oceania, Polynesia, in the North Pacific Ocean, 1,600 km
     south-southwest of Honolulu, almost halfway between Hawaii and
     American Samoa
Map references:
     Oceania
Area:
total area:
     11.9 sq km
land area:
     11.9 sq km
comparative area:
     about 20 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
Land boundaries:
     0 km
Coastline:
     14.5 km
Maritime claims:
contiguous zone:
     12 nm
continental shelf:
     200-m depth or to depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone:
     200 nm
territorial sea:
     12 nm
International disputes:
     none
Climate:
     equatorial, hot, and very rainy
Terrain:
     low, with maximum elevations of about 2 meters
Natural resources:
     none
Land use:
arable land:
     0%
permanent crops:
     0%
meadows and pastures:
     0%
forest and woodland:
     100%
other:
     0%
Irrigated land:
     0 sq km
 
 
Environment:
current issues:
     NA
natural hazards:
     NA
international agreements:
     NA
Note:
     about 50 islets covered with dense vegetation, coconut trees, and
     balsa-like trees up to 30 meters tall
 
                                  People
 
Population:
     uninhabited
 
                                Government
 
Names:
conventional long form:
     none
conventional short form:
Digraph:
     LQ
Type:
     incorporated territory of the US; privately owned, but administered by
     the Office of Territorial and International Affairs, US Department of
     the Interior
Capital:
     none; administered from Washington, DC
 
                                  Economy
 
Overview:
     no economic activity
 
                              Communications
 
Ports:
     the main harbor is West Lagoon, which is entered by a channel on the
     southwest side of the atoll; both the channel and harbor will
     accommodate vessels drawing 6 meters of water; much of the road and
     many causeways built during the war are unserviceable and overgrown
Airports:
total:
     1
usable:
     1
with permanent-surface runways:
     1
with runways over 3,659 m:
     0
with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
     0
 
 
with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
     1
 
                              Defense Forces
 
Note:
     defense is the responsibility of the US
 
 
 
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This section of THE WORLD FACTBOOK 1994 produced by the United States
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was derived from the US Dept. of Commerce
Economics and Statistics Division's NATIONAL TRADE DATA BANK (NTDB) CD-ROM,
November, 1994, SuDoc No. C 1.88:994/11/v.1-2 / Presented by Raleigh Muns,
(srcmuns@umslvma.umsl.edu) University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.