Hawaii, Palmyra Island. Lot of five covers from Palmyra Island, all but one with Censor marking, four with U.S. Navy postmark & one with stamp cancelled in transit by Honolulu duplex, F.-V.F. Estimate  $300 - 400. Palmyra Island is an atoll which lies 960 miles south by west of Honolulu. On April 15, 1862, Captain Zenas Bent landed and took formal possession for the Hawaiian government, in accordance with a royal commission issued to him by Kamehameha IV. He planted vegetables and left a white man and four Hawaiians on the island. Formal announcement was made of this by Kamehameha IV, through his Minister of Interior, June 18, 1862. The ownership of these island would later be disputed for the next 80 yearsPreliminary surveys were made by the U.S. Navy during 1938, and the first party to begin construction sailed from Honolulu November 14, 1939. $0 (Image)