Kure Atoll (/ˈkʊəriː/; Hawaiian: Hōlanikū, lit. 'bringing forth heaven'; Mokupāpapa, 'flat island') or Ocean Island is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean 48...

400 kilometers) from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. Formerly called the Sandwich Islands, the present name for the archipelago...

a shallow water atoll about 6 mi (9.7 km) across. Following Kure Atoll, Midway is the 2nd most northerly atoll in the world. The atoll has some 20 mi (32 km)...

island of Hawaiʻi to the northernmost Kure Atoll. Despite being within the boundaries of Hawaii, Midway Atoll, comprising several smaller islands, is...

therefore atolls are found only in the tropics and subtropics. The northernmost atoll in the world is Kure Atoll at 28°25′ N, along with other atolls of the...

northwest to Kure Atoll, and the Emperor Seamounts: together they form a vast underwater mountain region of islands and intervening seamounts, atolls, shallows...

the State of Hawaii Kure Atoll (Mokupāpapa) at 28°23′24″N 178°17′42″W / 28.39000°N 178.29500°W / 28.39000; -178.29500 (Kure Atoll) 156-acre (0.63 km2)...

in the city Kure Naval Base Kure Station, a railway station on the Kure Line Kure Atoll, an island in the Pacific Ocean, part of Hawaii Kure Beach, North...

between any two points in the 50 states: 5,859 miles (9,429 km), from Kure Atoll, Hawaii, to Log Point, Elliott Key, Florida. Greatest distance between...

operation throughout the 1860s, but in 1870 wrecked on what is now known as Kure Atoll, a Pacific island. The event produced several books and one of the surviving...

Woodward, Paul W. (1972). "The natural history of Kure Atoll, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands". Atoll Research Bulletin. 164 (164): 1–318 [148–167]. doi:10...

noting that there was a clinal change in size in the species: those from Kure Atoll in the North Pacific being the smallest; ranging to those from the Kermadec...

Ocean Island may refer to: Banaba Island, Kiribati Kure Atoll, Hawaii, United States Ocean Island Inn, a historic building in Victoria, British Columbia...

on Midway Atoll in the northwest Hawaiian Islands, where it was first introduced in 1911. It was also introduced to neighbouring Kure Atoll, but failed...

seamounts or guyots; islands closer to the equator evolve towards atolls (see Kure Atoll). After the reef dies, the volcano subsides or erodes below sea...

(Nalukākala) Laysan (Kauō) Lisianski (Papaāpoho) Pearl and Hermes (Holoikauaua) Kure Atoll (Mokupāpapa) Oʻahu Kaʻena Point Makapuʻu North Shore Waikīkī Central Idaho...

the stage for the 2004 voyage to the furthest, most westerly of them, Kure Atoll. Hōkūleʻa's 2004 voyage took the canoe through the area now comprising...

followed, leading to the establishment of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in 1988, Kure Atoll State Wildlife Sanctuary in 1993, and the NWHI Coral...

atolls, atoll islands, and extinct islands. They contain many of the most northerly atolls in the world, including Kure Atoll, the northernmost atoll...

Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in 2002. These thrived in their new surroundings, and another group were later relocated to Kure Atoll. Named by...

Friedrich August Georg Bitter in 1900. The species was endemic to the Kure Atoll, Midway Islands, and the island of Laysan, all being a part of the Northwestern...

Shoals, Laysan, Lisianski Island, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Midway Atoll and Kure Atoll; and on the Volcano Islands and Bonin Islands south of Japan. Colonies...

scope of this list encompasses the entire Hawaiian Islands chain, from Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to the north, to the "Big Island"...

submerged banks and coral atolls. Midway Atoll, for example, formed as a volcanic island some 28 million years ago. Kure Atoll, a little further to the...

Hawaii Including Kure Atoll, Pearl and Hermes Reef and the rest of the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, excluding Midway Atoll) United States...

for the United States. In 1867, she also surveyed what is now called Kure Atoll, to the west northwest of Midway, to produce more accurate charts of the...

The oldest member of the Hawaiian archipelago still above the sea is Kure Atoll, which can be dated to 30 mya. The archipelago itself (produced by the...

nine small, older islands northwest of Kauaʻi that extends from Nihoa to Kure Atoll; these are remnants of once much larger volcanic mountains. Across the...

or on pelagic resources (like they have been observed to do at Palmyra Atoll). On the infrequent occasions when they swim in oceanic waters, grey reef...

her repairs completed, she departed Kure, Japan, under Tanabe′s command on 23 May 1942 and headed for Kure Atoll, 48 nautical miles (89 km; 55 mi) west-northwest...