Palmyra Atoll Airfield is a disused airfield located in the Line Islands

Line Islands

The Line Islands, Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands, is a chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawaiian Islands, that stretches for 2,350 km in a northwest-southeast direction, making it one of the longest islands chains of the world...

 of the Central Pacific

Central Pacific

Central Pacific can refer to:* The Central Pacific Railroad, the western part of the Transcontinental Railroad in the United States* The Central Pacific Area, a subdivision of the Pacific Ocean Areas in World War II...

Ocean.

History

Preliminary surveys were made by the US Navy in 1938 for an airfield at this location. The first party to begin construction sailed from Honolulu November 14, 1939. US Navy undertook constructing. The runway was made from crushed coral, and expanded during the war.

The 76th U.S. Naval Construction Battalion (Seabees) dredged a channel during World War II so that ships could enter the protected lagoons and bulldozed coral rubble into a long, unpaved landing strip for refueling transpacific supply planes.

Today the runway is disused and is partially overgrown.