Palmyra & Ellice (Tuvalu) Islands
Other Posts for Lt. Irving Winkler included Palmyra & Ellice (Tuvalu) Islands
1942-1945
It is an unoccupied equatorial Northern Pacific atoll administered as an unorganized incorporated territory by the United States federal government. The 12-square-kilometer (4.6 sq mi) territory hosts a variable temporary population of 4–25 “non-occupants”, namely staff and scientists employed by various departments of the U.S. Government and by The Nature Conservancy, as well as a rotating mix of Palmyra Atoll Research Consortium scholars pursuing research. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyra_Atoll
The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians. The pattern of settlement that is believed to have occurred is that the Polynesians spread out from Samoa and Tonga into the Tuvaluan atolls, with Tuvalu providing a stepping stone to migration into the Polynesian Outlier communities in Melanesia and Micronesia. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu