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Palmerston Island

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Palmerston Island is a coral atoll in the Cook Islands in the Pacific Ocean about 290 miles (470 km) northwest of Rarotonga. James Cook landed there on 16 June 1774.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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