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The makeshift camp built for settlers on Howland Island during the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project.

The American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project was a plan initiated in 1935 by the United States Department of Commerce to place U.S. citizens on uninhabited Howland, Baker, and Jarvis Islands in the central Pacific Ocean so that weather stations and landing fields could be built for military and commercial use on air routes between Australia and California. Additionally, the U.S. government wanted to claim these remote islands to provide a check on eastern territorial expansion by the Empire of Japan. The colonists, who became known as Hui Panalāʻau, were primarily young Native Hawaiian men and other male students recruited from schools in Hawaii. In 1937, the project was expanded to include Canton and Enderbury in the Phoenix Islands. The project ended in early 1942 when the colonists were rescued from the islands at the start of the War in the Pacific.[1][2]

  1. ^ Janet Zisk (July 2002). "Hui Panalāʻau, Real Life Kamehameha Schools Survivors". The Kamehameha Schools Archives. Kamehameha Schools. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Hui Panalāʻau: Hawaiian Colonists in the Pacific, 1935–1942". University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Center for Oral History. 30 July 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2017.

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