A few hundred years of occupational history; just a blip in the four-and-a-half-billion years that our planet has rotated around the sun. During it's peak capacity it carried around two-thousand people but at times was inhabited by only four. Between 1934 and 2004 the atoll saw rocket-engineers and chemical-weapon experts through to sea-turtle scientists and reef-rehabilitators. For every serviceman, contractor, scientist, government representative or civilian that ever touched down on Johnston Island, there has been an implanted memory of 'the rock'. This site is in honor of those that have been to one of the world's most un-visited places and is an effort to celebrate and commemorate a small piece of the planet, in a small moment in time, and all of the people that gave it life. I may never have the opportunity to stand on Johnston Island and to see one of those sunsets I have heard time and time about, but maybe my collection can help to piece together and preserve some of the fragmented accounts of life on Johntston Island.
Below you will find a list of resources associated with Johnston Atoll and the making of this site. Let them help to paint a picture of a place and time that you and I will never get to see.
Blogs
https://georgehbalazs.com/johnson-atoll/
https://johnstonatolladventures.wordpress.com/
Articles
https://www.jason-stevens.com/2010/07/the-forgotten-island-of-johnston-atoll/comment-page-2/
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