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Penrhyn
Tongareva, emptied by blackbirders, then a US airbase.
- Population
- 226 (2016)
- US base
- 1942–1946
Then
- 1862
Blackbirders carry off hundreds of Tongarevans to Peru.
- 1942
Seabees start building a runway in July.
Now
The wartime strip is still the island's airport.