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In 1912, Henry Ernest Cooper ( 1857 – 1929 ) acquired William Ringer's property rights to Palmyra and, after a challenge in court, he became the sole owner of the atoll.

Cooper visited the island in July 1913 with the scientists Charles Montague Cooke, Jr., and Joseph F. Rock, who wrote up a scientific description of the atoll.