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Local fauna on Palmyra consists of mosquitoes and other insects, lizards, land and coconut crabs, a huge sea bird population consisting of sooty terns, frigate birds and red-footed boobies, and foliage that includes banyan, palm, and coconut trees and mangrove bushes. The interior is thick jungle. The coral reef and lagoons at Palmyra are also a breeding ground for gray and blacktip reef sharks, whose aggressiveness is well known throughout the Pacific and has been noted by every person who has ever ventured to the island, some with fatal consequences. Many visitors to the island found that swimming and even wading in the island?s lagoons was completely out of the question because of the large shark population and their aggressive nature.
And although an abundance of fish live on the outer reefs and in the lagoons, many of them are inedible and poisonous because of ciguatera, a type of algae that grows on coral and which some reef fish contain in their flesh. Eating a fish contaminated with ciguatoxins can cause severe abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, temporary blindness and even death.
Also found the web site for Fate magazine on the link I provided. I was a veracious reader at an early age, and remember reading each copy of my Mother's subscription cover to cover.
Which probably explains a lot. GG |
