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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 .
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.
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.
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 ...
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 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.
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.