Kure Atoll
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Kure Atoll or Ocean Island is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean 48 nautical miles west-northwest of Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at. A coral ring 6 miles across encloses a lagoon seve
Anchor from the ship Parker photographed in 2005, lost in 1842
The camp from survivors of Saginaw, which shipwrecked in 1870. At the time it was called Ocean Island.
Kure's Green Island in October 1959
Green Island from the air, in late 1959 after strips were cleared for albatrosses
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, also known as the Leeward Hawaiian Islands, are a series of mostly uninhabited islands and atolls located northwest of Kauai and Niʻihau in the Hawaiian island chain
Kure Atoll
…Mokupāpapa, 'flat island') or Ocean Island is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean 48 nautical miles (89 km; 55 mi) west-northwest of Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at . A coral ring 6 miles (9.7 km) across encloses a lagoon several meters deep. The atoll's largest island is called Green Island, and is a habitat…
The interior of Laysan, showing the hypersaline lake
JRO globe ca. 1960
Bird on Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals
The reserve sign on Lisianski