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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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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 and La Perouse Pinnacle of the French Frigate Shoals A number of islands were claimed as insular areas on behalf of the United States under the Guano Islands Act of 1856. These claims were made by private individuals to the U.S. Department of State and were not accepted by the United States unless certain conditions were met.