>>> Facts about Palmerston island >>> (last updated 27th April 2006)
- Palmerston is a volcanic atoll island
- Language: English (Gloucestershire)
- Religions : Christian

- Land & lagoon surface: app. 70 sq km
- Highest point :appox. 6 metres a.s.l.
- Population 48 people in 2001

- Homeland of the Ma(r)sters family
- Currency CI & New Zealand Dollar
- A beautyful tropical island to visit

 - Common access only by sea possible
- via inter island ship from Rarotonga
- or the Research Vessel Bounty Bay

- Longitude : 163° 10' 0'' - West
- Latitude : 18° 4' 0'' - South
- visited by Capt. Cook 13th April 1777

- Palmerston is part of the Cook Islands
- part of the Southern Group islands
- closest neighbour is Aitutaki island
Yellow Tipani ;-)
>>> Aerial photo showing Palmerston island © Air Rarotonga / E. Smith - click to enlarge
Yellow Tipani ;-)
please click photo to enlarge to a screen- filling size. >>> here
>>> Aerial photo showing Palmerston island © Air Rarotonga / E. Smith
The following text is taken from the "Cook Islands Companion", an informative book by author
Elliot Smith. - As the book has been re-printed in 1994 in a 2nd edition, cookislands.com will
ake the challenge on to update the text as soon as possible.

Palmerston
Yellow Tipani ;-)