Itascatown, Howland Island
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itascatown-howland-island-189-7372316
title:
Itascatown, Howland Island
text:
In 1935, colonists from the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project arrived on the island to establish a permanent U.S. presence in the Central Pacific. It began with a rotating group of four alumni and students from the Kamehameha School for Boys, a private school in Honolulu. Although the recruits had signed on as part of a scientific expedition and expected to spend their three-month assignment collecting botanical and biological samples, once out to sea, they were told, according to
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
US-controlled coral island in the central Pacific Ocean
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itascatown,_Howland_Island
date created:
2006-02-16T23:59:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T06:45:29Z
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13
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