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French Frigate Shoals, 2003 The towering La Pèrouse Pinnacle is made of hard volcanic rock and rises 122 ft (37 m) Tern Island was made into an airstrip base, the famous "coral carrier", after the Battle of Midway in World War II. The French Frigate Shoals (Hawaiian: Kānemilohaʻi) is the largest atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Tern Island is a coral island located near French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It is in the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge . It is approximately 490 miles (790 kilometers) west-northwest of Oahu .
French Frigate Shoals Airport (ICAO: PHHF, FAA LID: HFS) is a private use airport on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals, a coral atoll, in Hawaii, United States.It is owned by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, [1] as part of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
French Frigate Shoals is an atoll, the largest region of coral reefs in Hawaii, at 200 square miles (520 km 2). The atoll is composed of a dozen or so small islands, one of which (Tern Island) contains an airport and human habitations. Gardner Pinnacles is made up of two small basalt peaks, the last rocky island in Hawaii. While the island ...
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La Perouse Pinnacle as viewed from the southern shore of Tern Island. The formation is named for Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse.In the spring of 1786, the French frigates L'Astrolabe, under Fleuriot de Langle, and La Boussole, under de Galaup, narrowly avoided disaster at French Frigate Shoals.
Tern Island can also refer to: Tern Island (Hawaii), the main island in the atoll of French Frigate Shoals, in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands; Tern Island (Queensland), Australia; Tern Island, South Georgia; Tern Island Natural Area, a protected area of Bent County, Colorado, USA; Tern Island in Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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