Talk:Johnston Atoll

Status as of July 14th

It appears that it is again for sale - [1]. At least, I see no signs that it is not for sale. That link, as well as links to several Wikipedia articles, were featured in the website memepool. --Reverend Loki 00:42, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Annexed by the United Kingdom?

Was Johnston Atoll ever annexed by the United Kingdom? I have read a map from 1899 that suggests that the US and UK claims were in conflict at that time, such as was the Palymara Atoll claim (where the UK annexed in 1889, but the US objected later in 1911).

Chemicals

The US are incinerating or dumping (not sure) the waste left over from decomissioning thier chemical weapons and nerve agents there —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.16.160.17 (talk) 23:04, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

No, it's not for sale.

The listing that's linked to is a stale "deep link", that remains, even though the listing was withdrawn. If you look at the overall list of properties for sale from the GSA Property Disposal folks, this is not one of them. I actually called GSA and verified this. --Risacher 17:03, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

That's because they took it off the market. But the fact that the government did plan to sell it at one point is what drew me to learn more about Johnston Atoll. I wonder if mentioning this in the article would be a good idea. 125.215.150.94 (talk) 14:14, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposed WikiProject

There is now a proposed WikiProject dealing with the area of Micronesia at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Micronesia. Any interested parties should add their names there, so we can see if there is enough interest in this project to try to officially start it. Thank you. Badbilltucker 21:22, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Locator map

This article needs a locator showing the position of the territory in the world. -- Beland 01:06, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Souvenirs

I've removed the mock official gear, which is not abt the topic. It may be suitable for some article on fake plates, stage flags, etc., with proper verifiability, but these sources cannot be described as "reputable" without something that is hard to imagine, a verifiable source for that. (How does an editor use the sources to verify the statements? Apparently some self-perceived serious collector believes these sites assertions, including the implication that each vouches for its own reputability and maybe those of the other two. If on the other hand the Christie's or even Antiques Roadshow sites vouch for them, then show us, but i for one am too skeptical of their interest in this crap to make the effort; let someone who disagrees do that leg work.)
This was how the caption on the flag at Flag of Johnston Atoll began:

Flag designed by

Notable info abt JA?? No. Self-promotion? Either that or a BLP violation, since the appearance of such self-promotion could serve to make the person whose name i removed look tacky.

I removed this abt the plates:

There have been a number of supposed "Johnston Atoll" license plates issued for sale on-line. According to reputable license plate collectors, these were made as souvenirs and were never officially issued. Johnston Atoll only had one road, which made the use of official license plates unnecessary. Official vehicles had either U.S. Government license plates or a Department of Defense registration number painted on the front and rear of the vehicle. Passenger vehicles had plates from the original place of registration (often Hawaii).

But i've unlk'd the URLs, for the three pointlessly included .com sites, that sound like they deal in at least (plausibly) real plates:
www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/PA_JOHN.html www.pl8s.com/JDF/JDT.htm www.plateshack.com/y2k/Johnston_Atoll/johnatolly2k.html and they could be here as lk spam
--Jerzy•t 04:57, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Chemical Storage

The chemical storage at Johnston Island (Atoll) was VX, GB, Agent Orange (druns burry at the north side of the Island near of the water plant) and other chemicals. Those station at the Island their were expose to the agent orange thru the water plant because the plant only remove the salt of the water from the ocean and nothing else. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.248.77.151 (talk) 19:06, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

I lived there for 5 years, witnessing the end of the chemical destruction mission and the destruction of the JACADS plant facility. The most harmful weaponized and containerized chemicals on JI were VX, Sarin, Mustard, and Dioxin Orange ("Agent Orange"). There were other chemicals on the island for other purposes - to name just a few there were the chlorine gas and sodium hydroxide they used to make their own chlorine bleach (to wash down contaminated areas within the JACADS building), the railroad-tanker car sized tanks of propane they used for the incinerators, and the massive twin fuel storage tanks at the Petroleum, Oils and Lubricants (POL) Yard that contained JP5 jet fuel and MoGas respectively. There was more to be sure. But the Dioxin Orange was at the Northwest corner of the island, in a gated area, about as far as you could get from the water plant while still on land. Note that due to the island being located in the tradewinds, the Western end of the island was downwind, or "downrange" in the local lingo (unless a meteorological event changed the wind direction, which was *very* rare). The barrels of the agent in the fenced area were not buried, although they were old enough that they had developed leaks and had minor leakage into "groundwater". This was well known and monitored for. Because of the downwind nature of the location, and also due to wave action, no agent should have migrated to the water plant. And because the island was under constant scrutiny by the US Environmental Protection Agency (damned turtles and birds), we definitely would have been told if there was such an event. 108.39.67.224 (talk) 16:39, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Weapons testing.

This might need cleanup: 'several scientific sounding rockets'. So the rockets weren't actually scientific, just scientific sounding? There might be a better way to clarify what the rockets were for. (Taking soundings?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.192.210.229 (talk) 10:33, 5 February 2012 (UTC)