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The atoll is named for the ships Pearl and Hermes, which were wrecked upon it in 1822. [10]The Hawaiian-language name for the atoll, Holoikauaua, was established in the late 1990s by the Hawaiian Lexicon Committee following an effort to restore traditional Hawaiian names which had been lost, misspelled, or replaced with foreign names. [11]
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 feather hunters. Midway Atoll is the most commonly known of the NWHI, and is also the largest.
Red pencil urchin – Papahānaumokuākea. The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM) (roughly / p ɑː p ɑː ˈ h ɑː n aʊ m oʊ k u ˌ ɑː k eɪ. ə / [2]) is a World Heritage listed U.S. national monument encompassing 583,000 square miles (1,510,000 km 2) of ocean waters, including ten islands and atolls of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Pearl and Hermes Atoll: Atoll Island: K-Ar 20.6±2.7 million [3] A collection of small, sandy islands, with a lagoon and coral reef; named after two whaling ships which were wrecked on the reef in 1822 [46] Unnamed seamount Guyot
The Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain is a mostly undersea mountain range in the Pacific Ocean that reaches above sea level in Hawaii.It is composed of the Hawaiian ridge, consisting of the islands of the Hawaiian chain northwest to Kure Atoll, and the Emperor Seamounts: together they form a vast underwater mountain region of islands and intervening seamounts, atolls, shallows, banks and reefs ...
Cancer recovery coach Michelle Patidar of Chicago shared the items in her kitchen that she's replaced with safer options after being diagnosed with cancer at 32 years old.
An anchor of the Hermes at its shipwreck site in the Pearl and Hermes atoll. Hermes was built in Quebec in 1811. She traded widely before she made two voyages as a whaler to the British Southern Whale Fishery. She was wrecked in 1822 during the second voyage. The wreck was found at Pearl and Hermes atoll in the 21st century, an atoll for which ...
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