In 1922, a Hawaiian family bought a remote Pacific atoll to harvest coconuts; they later fought the US Navy, rejected casino plans and sold it for conservation

A remote ring of islets about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii has spent more than a century passing between coconut farmers, the US Navy and, eventually, conservationists. Palmyra Atoll was bought in 1922 by a Honolulu couple who wanted nothing more than to harvest copra.

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