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North Pacific Atoll of the United States Minor Outlying Islands

Midway Atoll

Native name: Kauihelani (Hawaiian) Pihemanu (Hawaiian) Nickname: Midway Islands
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Geography
Location	North Pacific Sea
Coordinates	28°12′27″N 177°21′00″West  /  28.20750°N 177.35000°West  / 28.20750; -177.35000 Coordinates: 28°12′27″N 177°21′00″Westward  /  28.20750°N 177.35000°Westward  / 28.20750; -177.35000
Archipelago	Hawaiian Archipelago
Full islands	iii
Major islands	Sand, Eastern, Spit
Area	i,549 acres (627 ha)
Length	5 mi (8 km)
Width	5 mi (8 km)
Highest height	43 ft (13.1 m)[ane]
Administration
United States
Department	Department of the Interior
Insular area	Midway Atoll
Operating unit	United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Largest Settlement	Sand Island (pop. 40)
Demographics
Demonym	Midway Islander
Population	39 (2019 (est.))
Pop. density	sixteen.5/sq mi (six.37/km2)
Boosted data
Fourth dimension zone	Samoa Time (UTC-11)

Map showing the location of Midway Atoll in the Hawaiian island chain

Midway Atoll (colloquial: Midway Islands; Hawaiian: Kauihelani, lit.'the backbone of heaven'; Pihemanu , 'the loud din of birds')^{[ii] [3]} is a 2.4 sq mi (6.two kmⁱⁱ) atoll in the North Pacific Ocean. Midway Atoll is an insular surface area of the United states and is an unorganized and unincorporated territory. The largest island is Sand Island, which has housing and an airstrip. Immediately to the due east of Sand Island across the narrow Brooks Channel is Eastern Isle, which is uninhabited and no longer has whatsoever facilities. Forming a crude, incomplete circle effectually the 2 main islands and creating Midway Lagoon is Spit Island, a narrow reef.^[ane]

Roughly equidistant between North America and Asia, Midway is the only island in the Hawaiian Archipelago that is not part of the country of Hawaii.^[1] Different the other Hawaiian islands, Midway observes Samoa Time (UTC−xi:00, i.eastward., eleven hours behind Coordinated Universal Time), which is one hour behind the time in the Hawaii–Aleutian Fourth dimension Zone used in Hawaii. For statistical purposes, Midway is grouped equally i of the United states Small-scale Outlying Islands. The Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, encompassing 590,991.fifty acres (239,165.77 ha)^[four] of country and water in the surrounding area, is administered by the The states Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The refuge and nigh of its surrounding area are office of the larger Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.

From 1941 until 1993, the atoll was the home of Naval Air Facility Midway Isle, which played a crucial role in the Boxing of Midway, June 4–6, 1942. Shipping based at the then-named Henderson Field on Eastern Island joined with United States Navy ships and planes in an assault on a Japanese battle group that sank four carriers, one heavy cruiser and defended the atoll from invasion. The battle was a critical Allied victory and a major turning point of the Pacific campaign of World War II.

About 40 people live on the atoll, generally staff of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and contract workers. Visitation to the atoll is possible only for business reasons, which includes permanent and temporary staff, contractors, and volunteers, as the tourism program has been suspended due to budget cutbacks. In 2012, the last yr that the company programme was in operation, 332 people made the trip to Midway.^{[5] [6] [vii] [viii] [9]} Tours focused on both the unique ecology of Midway, too as its military history. The economy is derived solely from governmental sources and tourist fees. Nearly all supplies must be brought to the isle by ship or aeroplane, although a hydroponic greenhouse and garden supply some fresh fruits and vegetables.

Location [edit]

Equally its name suggests, Midway is roughly equidistant between N America and Asia, and lies near halfway effectually the world longitudinally from Greenwich, England. It is nigh the northwestern end of the Hawaiian archipelago, most one-third of the way from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Tokyo, Japan. Midway is non considered part of the State of Hawaii due to the Hawaiian Organic Act of 1900 that formally annexed Hawaii to the The states as a territory, which defined Hawaii as "the islands acquired past the U.s. of America under an Human activity of Congress entitled 'Joint resolution to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the U.s.a.,'" referring to the Newlands Resolution of 1898. While it could exist argued that Midway became part of Hawaii when Captain Northward.C. Brooks of the sealing ship Gambia sighted it in 1859, information technology was assumed at the fourth dimension that Midway was independently acquired by the United States when Helm William Reynolds of USSLackawanna visited in 1867, and thus not part of the Hawaii Territory.

In defining which islands the Country of Hawaii would inherit from the Territory, the Hawaii Admission Human activity of 1959 clarified the question, specifically excluding Midway (along with Palmyra Isle, Johnston Island, and Kingman Reef) from the jurisdiction of the state.^[10]

Midway Atoll is approximately 140 nmi (260 km; 160 mi) eastward of the International Appointment Line, about two,800 nmi (five,200 km; iii,200 mi) west of San Francisco, and two,200 nmi (4,100 km; 2,500 mi) east of Tokyo.

Geography and geology [edit]

Enlargeable, detailed map of Midway Atoll

Midway Atoll is part of a chain of volcanic islands, atolls, and seamounts extending from the Isle of Hawaii up to the tip of the Aleutian Islands and known as the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, between Pearl and Hermes Atoll and Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It consists of a ring-shaped barrier reef well-nigh five mi (8.0 km) in bore^[11] and several sand islets. The two meaning pieces of land, Sand Island and Eastern Island, provide a habitat for millions of seabirds. The isle sizes are shown in the table to a higher place. The atoll, which has a pocket-sized population (approximately threescore in 2014,^[12] but no ethnic inhabitants), is designated an insular area under the authority of the United States Department of the Interior.

Midway was formed roughly 28 one thousand thousand years agone when the seabed underneath it was over the same hotspot from which the Island of Hawaii is now being formed. In fact, Midway was one time a shield volcano, perhaps as big as the island of Lānaʻi. As the volcano piled up lava flows building the island, its weight depressed the chaff and the isle slowly subsided over a period of millions of years, a process known every bit isostatic adjustment.

As the island subsided, a coral reef around the former volcanic island was able to maintain itself near bounding main level past growing upwards. That reef is at present over 516 ft (157 m) thick^[13] (in the lagoon, i,261 ft (384 k), comprised generally mail-Miocene limestones with a layer of upper Miocene (Tertiary k) sediments and lower Miocene (Tertiary e) limestones at the bottom overlying the basalts). What remains today is a shallow water atoll most 6 mi (9.7 km) across. Following Kure Atoll, Midway is the 2d near northerly atoll in the world.

Infrastructure [edit]

The atoll has some xx mi (32 km) of roads, four.viii mi (7.seven km) of pipelines, ane port on Sand Isle (World Port Index Nr. 56328, MIDWAY Island), and an airfield. Every bit of 2004^[update], Henderson Field airfield at Midway Atoll, with its one active track (rwy 06/24, effectually viii,000 ft (two,400 m) long) has been designated as an emergency diversion aerodrome for aircraft flying nether ETOPS rules. Although the FWS airtight all airport operations on November22, 2004, public access to the island was restored from March 2008.^[14]

Eastern Isle Airstrip is a disused airfield that was in utilize by U.S. forces during the Battle of Midway. It is mostly constructed of Marston Mat and was built past the United States Navy Seabees.

360 degree panoramic view of the low-lying landscape of Eastern Island, Midway Atoll

Climate [edit]

Despite beingness located at 28°12′N, which is north of the Tropic of Cancer, Midway Atoll has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Every bit)^[xv] with very pleasant yr-circular temperatures. Rainfall is evenly distributed throughout the yr, with only two months existence able to be classified as dry season months (May and June).

Climate information for Midway Atoll
Month	Jan	February	Mar	April	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	October	November	Dec	Year
Record loftier °F (°C)	80 (27)	78 (26)	79 (26)	82 (28)	86 (xxx)	89 (32)	92 (33)	92 (33)	92 (33)	89 (32)	88 (31)	82 (28)	92 (33)
Boilerplate high °F (°C)	70.0 (21.1)	69.4 (20.viii)	70.two (21.2)	71.7 (22.one)	75.3 (24.one)	80.7 (27.1)	82.five (28.1)	83.5 (28.6)	83.5 (28.6)	80.0 (26.7)	75.8 (24.3)	72.1 (22.three)	76.2 (24.6)
Average low °F (°C)	62.2 (16.8)	61.7 (16.5)	62.6 (17.0)	64.1 (17.8)	67.4 (19.7)	72.eight (22.7)	74.vi (23.seven)	75.vi (24.2)	75.one (23.ix)	72.4 (22.iv)	68.4 (twenty.ii)	64.4 (18.0)	68.4 (20.two)
Tape low °F (°C)	51 (11)	51 (xi)	51 (11)	53 (12)	55 (thirteen)	62 (17)	63 (17)	64 (18)	64 (xviii)	lx (16)	55 (13)	51 (11)	51 (11)
Average precipitation inches (mm)	four.85 (123)	3.82 (97)	iii.05 (77)	2.98 (76)	ii.42 (61)	2.06 (52)	3.44 (87)	4.32 (110)	3.84 (98)	3.79 (96)	3.83 (97)	4.09 (104)	42.52 (1,080)
Average precipitation days	sixteen	14	12	11	nine	nine	15	15	15	fourteen	14	16	160
Source: Western Regional Climate Center[16]

History [edit]

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1900	21		—
1910	35		66.7%
1920	31		−eleven.4%
1930	36		16.1%
1940	437		one,113.9%
1950	416		−4.8%
1960	2,356		466.3%
1970	2,220		−five.8%
1980	453		−79.6%
1990	13		−97.1%
2000	4		−69.2%
2010	0		−100.0%
2014 (est.)	forty	[17]

Midway has no indigenous inhabitants and was uninhabited until the 19th century.

19th century [edit]

The atoll was sighted on July 5, 1859, by Helm N.C. Brooks, of the sealing send Gambia.^{[18] [19]} The islands were named the "Middlebrook Islands".^[18] Brooks claimed Midway for the United states under the Guano Islands Act of 1856, which authorized Americans to occupy uninhabited islands temporarily to obtain guano. There is no record of any endeavour to mine guano on the island. On August28, 1867, Captain William Reynolds of USSLackawanna formally took possession of the atoll for the United States;^[20] the name changed to "Midway" some time after this. The atoll was the kickoff Pacific island annexed by the United States, as the Unincorporated Territory of Midway Island, and was administered by the The states Navy.

The first endeavour at settlement was in 1870, when the Pacific Post Steamship Visitor started a project of blasting and dredging a ship channel through the reef to the lagoon using money put upwards by the United states of america Congress. The purpose was to institute a mid-ocean coaling station to avoid the loftier taxes imposed at ports controlled by the Kingdom of Hawai'i. The project was a failure, and the USSSaginaw evacuated the channel project's piece of work forcefulness in October 1870. The ship ran ashore on 21 October at Kure Atoll, stranding 93 men. On 18 November, 5 men gear up out in a small boat to seek aid. On 19 December, four of the men perished when the boat was upset in the breakers off of Kauai. The survivor reached the U.S. Consulate in Honolulu on Christmas Eve. Relief ships were despatched and reached Kure Atoll on 4 January 1871. The survivors of the Saginaw wreck reached Honolulu on xiv January 1871.

Early 20th century [edit]

Midway Atoll in November 1941, looking west

In 1903, workers for the Commercial Pacific Cable Company took up residence on the isle every bit part of the effort to lay a trans-Pacific telegraph cable. These workers introduced many non-native species to the isle, including the canary, cycad, Norfolk Island pino, she-oak, kokosnoot, and various deciduous copse; along with ants, cockroaches, termites, centipedes, and countless others.^{[ citation needed ]}

On Jan 20, 1903, the United States Navy opened a radio station in response to complaints from cable visitor workers about Japanese squatters and poachers. Between 1904 and 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt stationed 21 Marines on the island to end wanton destruction of bird life and keep Midway safe equally a U.S. possession, protecting the cablevision station.

In 1935, operations began for the Martin Yard-130 flying boats operated past Pan American Airlines. The M-130s island-hopped from San Francisco to the Democracy of China, providing the fastest and nigh luxurious route to the Far East and bringing tourists to Midway until 1941. Only the very wealthy could afford the trip, which in the 1930s cost more than 3 times the annual salary of an boilerplate American. With Midway on the route between Honolulu and Wake Island, the flying boats landed in the atoll and pulled up to a bladder offshore in the lagoon. Tourists transferred to the Pan Am Hotel or the "Gooneyville Social club", named later on the ubiquitous "Gooney birds" (albatrosses).

World State of war 2 [edit]

U.s. celebrated place

World State of war Ii Facilities at Midway
U.South. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
Burning oil tanks during the Battle of Midway
Location	Sand Island, Midway Islands, Usa Small-scale Outlying Islands
Congenital	1941
Architect	U.s. Navy
NRHP referenceNo.	87001302
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 28, 1987[21] [22]
Designated NHLD	May 28, 1987[23]

The location of Midway in the Pacific became of import militarily. Midway was a convenient refueling finish on transpacific flights, and was as well an important cease for Navy ships. Beginning in 1940, equally tensions with the Japanese rose, Midway was deemed 2nd only to Pearl Harbor in importance to the protection of the U.S. West Declension. Airstrips, gun emplacements and a seaplane base of operations quickly materialized on the tiny atoll.^[24]

The aqueduct was widened, and Naval Air Station Midway was completed. Midway was besides an important submarine base.^[24]

On February 14, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8682 to create naval defense areas in the central Pacific territories. The proclamation established "Midway Island Naval Defensive Sea Area", which encompassed the territorial waters between the extreme high-water marks and the iii mi (iv.viii km) marine boundaries surrounding Midway. "Midway Island Naval Airspace Reservation" was besides established to restrict admission to the airspace over the naval defense sea area. Only U.Due south. authorities ships and aircraft were permitted to enter the naval defense areas at Midway Atoll unless authorized by the Secretary of the Navy.

Midway's importance to the U.Southward. was brought into focus on Decemberseven, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Midway was attacked by 2 destroyers on the same day,^[24] and the Japanese strength was successfully repulsed in the first American victory of the war. A Japanese submarine bombarded Midway on Februaryx, 1942.^[25]

Iv months later, on June 4, 1942, a major naval battle well-nigh Midway resulted in the U.S. Navy inflicting a devastating defeat on the Imperial Japanese Navy. Four Japanese fleet shipping carriers, Akagi, Kaga, Hiryū and Sōryū, were sunk, along with the loss of hundreds of Japanese aircraft, losses that the Japanese Empire would never be able to replace. The U.S. lost the aircraft carrier Yorktown, along with a number of its carrier- and land-based shipping that were either shot downward by Japanese forces or bombed on the ground at the airfields. The Battle of Midway was, by most accounts, the beginning of the cease of the Imperial Japanese Navy's control of the Pacific Ocean.^[26]

Starting in July 1942, a submarine tender was ever stationed at the atoll to back up submarines patrolling Japanese waters. In 1944, a floating dry dock joined the tender.^[27] Afterward the Boxing of Midway, a 2nd airfield was developed, this one on Sand Island. This work necessitated enlarging the size of the isle through land fill techniques, that when concluded, more doubled the size of the isle.

Korean and Vietnam Wars [edit]

From August ane, 1941, to 1945, it was occupied by U.S. military forces. In 1950, the Navy decommissioned Naval Air Station Midway, only to re-committee information technology again to support the Korean War. Thousands of troops on ships and aircraft stopped at Midway for refueling and emergency repairs. From 1968 to September10, 1993, Midway Island was a Naval Air Facility.

With near 3,500 people living on Sand Island, Midway also supported the U.S. troops during the Vietnam State of war. In June 1969, President Richard Nixon held a secret meeting with S Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu at the Officer-in-Charge house or "Midway Firm".

Missile Impact Location System [edit]

From 1958 through 1960 the United States installed the Missile Bear on Location Organisation (MILS) in the Navy managed Pacific Missile Range, afterward the Air Force managed Western Range, to localize the splash downs of test missile nose cones. MILS was adult and installed by the aforementioned entities that had completed the start phase of the Atlantic and U.S. West Coast SOSUS systems. A MILS installation, consisting of both a target array for precision location and a broad body of water area system for good positions outside the target expanse, was installed at Midway equally part of the system supporting Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) tests. Other Pacific MILS shore terminals were at the Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay supporting Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) tests with impact areas northeast of Hawaii and the other ICBM exam back up systems at Wake Island and Eniwetok.^{[28] [29] [xxx]}

Naval Facility Midway [edit]

Lofargram writers on NAVFAC watch floor.

During the Cold State of war the U.S. established a shore last, in which output of the assortment at sea was candy and displayed by means of the Low Frequency Analyzer and Recorder (LOFAR), of the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), Naval Facility (NAVFAC) Midway Island, to rails Soviet submarines. The facility became operational in 1968 and was commissioned Januarythirteen, 1969. It remained cloak-and-dagger until its decommissioning on September30, 1983, after information from its arrays had been remoted first to Naval Facility Barbers Bespeak, Hawaii, in 1981 and and so directly to the Naval Sea Processing Facility (NOPF) Ford Island, Hawaii.^{[28] [31]} U.Due south. Navy WV-ii (EC-121K) "Willy Victor" radar aircraft flew night and mean solar day as an extension of the Distant Early on Warning Line, and antenna fields covered the islands.

Civilian handover [edit]

The unofficial flag of Midway Atoll, designed by local Fish and Wildlife Service employee Steve Dryden, was introduced on June 4th, 2000, the 58th anniversary of the Boxing of Midway.^{[32] [33]}

In 1978, the Navy downgraded Midway from a Naval Air Station to a Naval Air Facility and big numbers of personnel and dependents began leaving the island. With the war in Vietnam over, and with the introduction of reconnaissance satellites and nuclear submarines, Midway'southward significance to U.Southward. national security was diminished. The World War II facilities at Sand and Eastern Islands were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May28, 1987, and were simultaneously added as a National Historic Landmark.^[23]

As part of the Base of operations Realignment and Closure process, the Navy facility on Midway has been operationally closed since Septemberten, 1993, although the Navy assumed responsibleness for cleaning upwardly environmental contamination.

2011 tsunami [edit]

The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11 caused many deaths amongst the bird population on Midway.^[34] It was reported that a 1.5 one thousand (4.ix ft) loftier wave completely submerged the atoll'southward reef inlets and Spit Island, killing more than 110,000 nesting seabirds at the National Wildlife Refuge.^[35] Scientists on the island, all the same, practise not call back it will accept long-term negative impacts on the bird populations.^[36]

A U.South. Geological Survey written report found that the Midway Atoll, Laysan, and Pacific islands like them could get inundated and unfit to live on during the 21st century, due to increased storm waves and rising body of water levels.^{[37] [38]}

National Wildlife Refuge and National Monument [edit]

Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and Battle of Midway National Memorial
IUCN category IV (habitat/species direction surface area)
Navy memorial and gooney monument with Laysan albatross chicks
Location	Midway Atoll
Area	2,365.3 km2 (913.2 sq mi)[39]
Established	1988
Governing body	United States Fish & Wildlife Service
Website	Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and Boxing of Midway National Memorial

Midway was designated an overlay National Wildlife Refuge on Apr22, 1988, while notwithstanding under the principal jurisdiction of the Navy.

From August 1996, the general public could visit the atoll through study ecotours.^[40] This program ended in 2002,^[41] only another visitor programme was approved and began operating in March 2008.^{[fourteen] [42]} This programme operated through 2012, but was suspended for 2013 due to budget cuts.^[vii]

On October 31, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 13022, which transferred the jurisdiction and control of the atoll to the United States Department of the Interior. The FWS assumed management of the Midway Atoll National Wild fauna Refuge. The last contingent of Navy personnel left Midway on June30, 1997, subsequently an ambitious ecology cleanup plan was completed.

On September 13, 2000, Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt designated the Wild animals Refuge as the Battle of Midway National Memorial.^[43] The refuge is now titled as the "Midway Atoll National Wild fauna Refuge and Boxing of Midway National Memorial".

On June xv, 2006, President George West. Bush designated the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands as a national monument. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument encompasses 105,564 sq nmi (139,798 sq mi; 362,074 km^two), and includes 3,910 sq nmi (5,178 sq mi; 13,411 km²) of coral reef habitat.^[44] The Monument also includes the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge and the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.

In 2007, the Monument'due south name was changed to Papahānaumokuākea (Hawaiian pronunciation: [ˈpɐpəˈhaːnɔuˈmokuˈaːkeə]) Marine National Monument.^{[45] [46] [47]} The National Monument is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wild animals Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Country of Hawaii. In 2016 President Obama expanded the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, and added the Office of Hawaiian Affairs equally a fourth co-trustee of the monument.

Environment [edit]

Midway Atoll forms part of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands Important Bird Expanse (IBA), designated equally such by BirdLife International because of its seabirds and owned landbirds.^[48] The atoll is a disquisitional habitat in the central Pacific Ocean, and includes breeding habitat for 17 seabird species. A number of native species rely on the island, which is now home to 67–70 percent of the world'due south Laysan albatross population, and 34–39 percent of the global population of blackness-footed albatross.^[49] A very small number of the very rare short-tailed albatross also have been observed. Fewer than 2,200 individuals of this species are believed to exist due to excessive feather hunting in the tardily nineteenth century.^[l] In 2007–08, the U.Southward. Fish and Wildlife Service translocated 42 endangered Laysan ducks to the atoll as part of their efforts to conserve the species.

Over 250 different species of marine life are found in the 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) of lagoon and surrounding waters. The critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals raise their pups on the beaches, relying on the atoll's reef fish, squid, octopus and crustaceans. Dark-green body of water turtles, another threatened species, occasionally nest on the island. The first was found in 2006 on Spit Isle and another in 2007 on Sand Island. A resident pod of 300 spinner dolphins live in the lagoons and nearshore waters.^[51]

The islands of Midway Atoll have been extensively altered equally a result of man habitation. Starting in 1869 with the project to blast the reefs and create a port on Sand Island, the environment of Midway atoll has experienced profound changes.

A number of invasive exotics have been introduced; for example, ironwood trees from Commonwealth of australia were planted to act equally windbreaks. Of the 200 species of plants on Midway, 75 percentage are non-native. Recent efforts have focused on removing non-native plant species and re-planting native species.

Pb paint on the buildings posed an ecology hazard (avian lead poisoning) to the boundness population of the island. In 2018, a project to strip the paint was completed.^[52]

Pollution [edit]

Marine debris with Laysan albatross chicks

Midway Atoll, in common with all the Hawaiian Islands, receives substantial amounts of marine debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Consisting of 90 percent plastic, this debris accumulates on the beaches of Midway. This garbage represents a take chances to the bird population of the island. Every year twenty tons of plastic debris washes upward on Midway, with 5 tons of that debris being fed to Albatross chicks.^[53] The U.S. Fish and Wild fauna Service estimates at least 100 lb (45 kg) of plastic washes up every week.^[54]

Of the one.five million Laysan Albatrosses that inhabit Midway, nearly all are found to accept plastic in their digestive organisation.^[55] Approximately 1-third of the chicks die.^[56] These deaths are attributed to the albatrosses confusing brightly colored plastic with marine animals (such as squid and fish) for nutrient.^[57] Recent results suggest that oceanic plastic develops a chemic signature that is normally used past seabirds to locate food items.^[58]

Because boundness chicks do not develop the reflex to regurgitate until they are four months old, they cannot expel the plastic pieces. Albatrosses are not the simply species to suffer from the plastic pollution; sea turtles and monk seals also consume the debris.^[57] A variety of plastic items wash upon the shores, from cigarette lighters to toothbrushes and toys. An albatross on Midway can take upward to 50 percent of its intestinal tract filled with plastic.^[54]

Transportation [edit]

The usual method of reaching Sand Island, Midway Atoll's just populated island, is on chartered aircraft landing at Sand Island'due south Henderson Field, which also functions as an emergency diversion point track for transpacific flights.

Run across also [edit]

• Desert isle
• Listing of islands

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Farther reading [edit]

Natural history [edit]

• Hubert, Mabel, Carl Frings, and H. Franklin – Sounds of Midway: Calls of Albatrosses of Midway.
• Mearns, Edgar Alexander – A List of the Birds Collected by Dr. Paul Bartsch in the Philippine Islands, Kalimantan, Guam, and Midway Island, with Descriptions of Three New Forms.
• Fisher, Mildred L. (1970). The Albatross of Midway Island: A Natural History of the Laysan Albatross. Southern Illinois Academy Press. ISBN978-0-8093-0426-4.
• Rauzon, Marking J (2001). Isles of Refuge: Wild animals and History of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN0-8248-2209-nine.

Military history [edit]

• Fuchida, Mitsuo; Okumiya, Masatake; Kawakami, Clarke H.; Pineau, Roger (1955). Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan. Naval Plant Press.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot (1950). Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions, May, 1942 – Baronial, 1942. Boston: Petty, Brown and Company.
• Frank, Pat; Harrington, Joseph D.; Fletcher, Frank; Tanaube, Yahachi (1967). Rendezvous at Midway: U. S. S. Yorktown and the Japanese Carrier Fleet . New York: John Twenty-four hours Co.
• Parshall, Jonathan; Tully, Anthony (2005). Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway . Herndon, VA: Potomac Books. ISBN978-i-57488-923-nine.
• Prange, Gordon W.; Goldstein, Donald Yard.; Dillon, Katherine V. (1982). Phenomenon at Midway. New York: MJF Books. ISBN1-56731-895-ix.
• Smith, Myron J. (1991). The Battles of Coral Ocean and Midway, 1942: A Selected Bibliography (annotated ed.). ABC-CLIO. ISBN978-0-313-28120-4.
• Toland, John (1974). But Non in Shame: The Six Months after Pearl Harbour. Ballantine Books. ISBN0-345-25748-0.
• Tuleja, Thaddeus (1983). Climax at Midway. Jove. ISBN0-515-07403-9.
• Wildenberg, Thomas (1998). Destined for Glory: Dive Bombing, Midway, and the Evolution of Carrier Airpower. Naval Institute Press. ISBN1-55750-947-half-dozen.

External links [edit]

• U.Due south. Fish & Wild animals Service Midway Atoll National Wild animals Refuge and Battle of Midway National Memorial (this article incorporated some content from this public domain site)
• Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument – Midway
• Diary from the middle of nowhere BBC'southward environment correspondent David Shukman reports on the threat of plastic rubbish drifting in the North Pacific Gyre to Midway. Accessed 2008-03-26.
• The Boxing of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific, a National Park Service Instruction with Celebrated Places (TwHP) lesson plan
• Marines at Midway: by Lieutenant Colonel R.D. Heinl, Jr., USMC Historical Department, Division of Public Information Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps 1948,
• By residents of Midway Discussion of Midway related topics by erstwhile residents and those interested in Midway.
• Midway Atoll Today (2010)
• Island Conservation: Midway Atoll Restoration Project

World Map Midway Island Map,

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Atoll

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