Johnston Atoll

The Fish and Wildlife Service and the US Air Force are currently discussing future management options; in the interim, Johnston Atoll and the three-mile Naval Defensive Sea around it remain under the jurisdiction and administrative control of the US Air Force.

Background 2008

Johnston Atoll and Kingman Reef: tropical, but generally dry; consistent northeast trade winds with little seasonal temperature variation

Climate 2008

The Fish and Wildlife Service and the US Air Force are currently discussing future management options; in the interim, Johnston Atoll and the three-mile Naval Defensive Sea around it remain under the jurisdiction and administrative control of the US Air Force.

United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges 2008

Johnston Atoll and Kingman Reef: tropical, but generally dry; consistent northeast trade winds with little seasonal temperature variation

United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges 2008

Background: Both the US and the Kingdom of Hawaii annexed Johnston Atoll in 1858, but it was the US that mined the guano deposits until the late 1880s.

Johnston Atoll 2008

So far, one quarter of the nation's stockpile has been destroyed in Utah and Johnston Atoll in the Pacific -- all by incineration.

The Nerve Gas Next Door 2007

These islands have experienced extensive disturbances in the past, including attempts to establish copra (coconut) plantations and phosphate mines on most of them, military occupation on Palmyra and Kiritimati, nuclear weapons testing on Kiritimati, and construction of a massive airport and chemical weapons incinerator on Johnston Atoll.

Central Polynesian tropical moist forests 2007

MATTINGLY: Not in Anniston, but it has in two other locations, in Utah at an incinerator there and in the Pacific at the Johnston Atoll.

CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2003 2003

(Hikina) are manmade islands formed from coral dredging; closed to the public; former nuclear weapons test site; site of Johnston Atoll

The 1994 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Johnston Atoll in 1858, but it was the US that mined the guano deposits until the late 1880s.

The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency