oops
forgot your other question
evidently palmyra became disorganized when hawaii became a state in 1959
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
>
> as mentioned in the link to message 17324
> incorporation is not reversible
>
> which means
> once incorporated
> always incorporated
>
> even if uninhabited
>
>
> but in fact not only palmyra
> but also kingman reef & midway & the johnston group
> are other former parts of hawaii
> that were also separated from hawaii territory
>
> but i believe prior to statehood in those cases
>
>
> & since they werent incorporated as parts of hawaii territory in 1900
> when hawaii was incorporated
> they never became incorporated as palmyra did
>
>
> i believe the reason for the exclusion of certain areas from the state territory was mostly
> for military convenience
>
> but they were also rather remote from the main group of islands anyway
>
> palmyra was even considered as a nuclear waste dump
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Meynell <knm@m...> wrote:
> > Lowell,
> >
> > >In the Hawaii Statehood Act of March 18, 1959, the Congress specifically
> > >excluded Palmyra from the new state
> >
> > What was the reason for separating Palmyra from Hawaii at the time of
> > statehood? Furthermore, assuming that the whole of Hawaii was previously an
> > incorporated organised territory of the US, presumably Palmyra must have
> > become 'disorganised' at some point?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kevin Meynell