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Lisianski Island (Hawaiian: Papa‘āpoho) is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with a land area of 384.425 acres (155.571 ha) and a maximum elevation of 40 feet (12 m) above sea level. It is a low, flat sand and coral island about 905 nautical miles (1,041 mi; 1,676 km) northwest of Honolulu , Hawaii . [ 1 ]
Lisianski Island, only 400 acres (1.6 km 2), is geologically akin to Laysan, without the lake. Though the island is slightly less biodiverse, the surrounding reef is very fertile. Pearl and Hermes Atoll is an atoll very similar to French Frigate Shoals, but with much less dry land. For this reason, it was mostly ignored by guano miners and ...
Lisianski Island: Atoll Island: 19.9 to 20.6 million [n 4] A small island surrounded by a huge coral reef nearly the size of Oahu; [44] named after a captain in the Russian navy whose ship ran aground there in 1805 [45] Unnamed seamount Guyot
The island of Oʻahu has just over one million residents (about 70% of the state's population), and the island of Hawaiʻi is by far the largest island with an area of 4,028 sq mi (10,430 km 2)—62.7% of the state's land area. The islands were first settled as early as AD 300 by Polynesian long-distance navigators
Lisianski (Lisiansky, Lisyansky) may refer to one of the following. Yuri Feodorovich Lisyansky, an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy and explorer; Things named after Lisyansky: Lisianski Island, Hawaii; Lisianski Peninsula, located on the west coast of Baranof Island in the Alaska Panhandle. Lisianski Mountain, Sakhalin
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. Extinct species of bird Laysan rail 1913 photograph of live specimen by Alfred M. Bailey Conservation status Extinct (1944) (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Gruiformes Family: Rallidae Genus: Zapornia Species ...
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Also in 1805, he was the first to describe the Hawaiian monk seal on the island which now bears his name - Lisianski Island. [3] Eventually, Neva was the first to return to Kronstadt on 22 July 1806. For his feats Lisyansky received several rewards, including the Order of Saint Vladimir of 3rd degree.