Subject: Re: U.S. External Territories list<br/>
Date: Apr 12, 2005 @ 12:50<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1722477340">as mentioned in the link to message 17324<br/>
incorporation is not reversible<br/>
<br/>
which means<br/>
once incorporated <br/>
always incorporated<br/>
<br/>
even if uninhabited<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but in fact not only palmyra<br/>
but also kingman reef & midway & the johnston group<br/>
are other former parts of hawaii <br/>
that were also separated from hawaii territory<br/>
<br/>
but i believe prior to statehood in those cases<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& since they werent incorporated as parts of hawaii territory in 1900 <br/>
when hawaii was incorporated<br/>
they never became incorporated as palmyra did<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
i believe the reason for the exclusion of certain areas from the state territory was mostly <br/>
for military convenience<br/>
<br/>
but they were also rather remote from the main group of islands anyway<br/>
<br/>
palmyra was even considered as a nuclear waste dump<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, Kevin Meynell &lt;knm@m...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; Lowell,<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt;In the Hawaii Statehood Act of March 18, 1959, the Congress specifically <br/>
&gt; &gt;excluded Palmyra from the new state<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; What was the reason for separating Palmyra from Hawaii at the time of <br/>
&gt; statehood? Furthermore, assuming that the whole of Hawaii was previously an <br/>
&gt; incorporated organised territory of the US, presumably Palmyra must have <br/>
&gt; become &#39;disorganised&#39; at some point?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Regards,<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Kevin Meynell </span></blockquote></div>