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A white tern at Tern Island, 2006 Albatrosses at Tern Island Sooty Tern in flight at Tern Island Birds and Tern Island structures. The bird populations were studied. [24] One concern was birds eating plastic trash, which was studied between 2006 and 2013. [24] Tern Island is a popular research site to study Pacific sea- and shore-birds. [25]
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
The three biggest islands were Tern, East, and Trig Islands. However, by the 2020s both East and Trig Island had mostly washed away. Tern and East had been home to naval and/or Coast Guard bases in the late 20th century. Since 2012, Tern Island has not been occupied but is still routinely visited for trash cleanup and research.
Tern island is an island a few hundred metres north of Tern Cliffs and the Apudthama National Park in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia, in the Cape York Peninsula about 40 km southeast of Bamaga.
Of the 27-acre (11 ha) area of the expanded island, the airfield took up 20 acres (8.1 ha). The Navy designated this airfield as Naval Air Facility French Frigate Shoals, an auxiliary of Naval Station Pearl Harbor. The 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake generated a tsunami that swept clean Tern Island, and the Navy closed the naval air facility.
Siuraq (Inuktitut syllabics: ᓯᐅᕋᖅ [1]) formerly Tern Island [2] is an island located in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region in the northern Canadian Arctic. It is situated in the Foxe Basin . The mainland's Melville Peninsula is to the west, Baffin Island is to the northwest, and Kapuiviit is to the northeast.
Other names for the species include angel tern and white noddy in English, and manu-o-Kū in Hawaiian. in the Cook Islands, it is known as the kakaia. The little white tern ( Gygis microrhyncha ), previously considered a subspecies of the white tern ( Gygis alba microrhyncha ), is now recognised as a separate species.
Tern Island in the south part of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia) is a small, tussock-covered island lying 1.6 km (1 mile) south of Albatross Island and 10 km (6 miles) east of Dot Island It was first charted in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy , American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy.