Talk:Kingman Reef

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[edit] Pan Am Information

PedanticallySpeaking, sorry to run roughshod over your recent edits, but there were a few points I wanted to correct:

• The ship was the "North Wind".
• Pan Am had permission from the US Navy to use Kingman for their survey flights, but didn't have permission for scheduled service. No doubt they would have received it, but since they found that Kingman was basically awash most of the time, they would have had difficulty making a base there. Docking a tanker at the site was not an option and even so, did not have the quality of accommodations that they would have liked for their passengers.
• Pan Am didn't get service to Australia until well after WWII.
• I don't think the loss of the Samoan Clipper had anything to do with the switch. It was lost at Pago Pago (or more accurately Apia), and Pan Am continued to use American Samoa after the switch to Canton. Bollar 18:48, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)

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