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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 .
Monk seal and noddy terns at Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals A sign noting Tern Island as part of a United States nature reserve in the French Frigate Shoals. The islands were discovered by the French in the late 18th century and was formally claimed by the United States in 1859 under the Guano Islands Act. The main focus of the USA was to ...
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
In a desperate effort to save a seabird species in Hawaii from rising ocean waters, scientists are moving chicks to a new island hundreds of miles away. Moving species to save them — once ...
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.
While the island itself is tiny, the surrounding reef is expansive and diverse. 166-square-mile (430 km 2) Maro Reef is an extremely fertile reef system that has been described as a "coral garden". Laysan is a 913-acre (3.69 km 2), low, sandy island with a natural lake in its interior, one of only five such lakes in Hawaii. It has arguably the ...
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
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