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    Midway Atoll (colloquial: Midway Islands; Hawaiian: Kuaihelani, lit. 'the backbone of heaven'; Pihemanu, 'the loud din of birds') is a 2.4 sq mi (6.2 km2)...
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    Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chūichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondō north of Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet. Military historian...
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    (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island) and one in the Caribbean Sea (Navassa...
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    island of Hawaiʻi to the northernmost Kure Atoll. Despite being within the boundaries of Hawaii, Midway Atoll, comprising several smaller islands, is not...
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    researcher in 1956, and in December 1956, she was seen rearing a new chick on Midway Atoll. Because Laysan albatrosses cannot breed until they are five years old...
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    (IATA: MDY, ICAO: PMDY) is a public airport located on Sand Island in Midway Atoll, an unincorporated territory of the United States. The airport is used...
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  • booths are concentrated Midway Atoll, also called Midway Island, a low-lying coral atoll in the central Pacific Ocean Midway International Airport, in...
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  • objective identified only as "AF". Layton and his team believe that "AF" is Midway Atoll, while Washington believes it to be a target in the South Pacific. The...
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    uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands), with the sole exception of Midway Atoll (a United States Minor Outlying Island). Hawaii is the only U.S. state...
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    the Pacific Ocean 48 nautical miles (89 km; 55 mi) west-northwest of Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at 28°25′N 178°20′W / 28.417°N...
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    possibly earlier. In 1956, she was tagged by scientists as #Z333 at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. When she was banded in 1956, she was conservatively...
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    higher in areas where these illegal longline fishing vessels operate. On Midway Atoll, collisions between Laysan albatrosses and aircraft have resulted in...
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    uninhabited islands, atolls, and reefs. Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island...
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    are all part of Honolulu County in the U.S. state of Hawaii, except Midway Atoll, which is a territory distinct from the State of Hawaii, and grouped...
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    domestica) and the black-chinned siskin (Spinus barbatus) in captivity. Midway Atoll is home to a colony of feral yellow canaries, descended from pet birds...
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    Facility, and a naval base. It was finally closed on 1 October 1993. Midway Atoll consists of two small islets, Sand Island and Eastern Island, surrounded...
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  • Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island. The country code top-level...
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    Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved October 10, 2014. "Midway Atoll". Office of Insular Affairs. Archived from the original on February 4...
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  • Northwest Army Airfield Orote Field Northwest Field Johnston Atoll Airport Henderson Field Palmyra Atoll Airfield Palmyra Runway North Field Camp Garcia Vieques...
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  • gallery for the Midway series Chris Jordan Chris Jordan follows the plastic to Midway Atoll, article in the TED blog Kickstarter: Join the Midway Film Project...
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  • (Midway Atoll) (IATA: MDY), Midway Atoll, United States Henderson Field (Midway), an abandoned airfield on East Midway Island, United States Midway Airport...
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    outlying islands include Jarvis Island, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Kingman Reef (UTC−11:00); Johnston Atoll (UTC−10:00); and Navassa Island, Bajo...
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    Pearl Harbor. Two Imperial Japanese destroyers bombarded Sand Island of Midway Atoll. The Japanese successfully damaged the U.S. Marine base before being...
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    Outlying Islands (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island). The original UN definition of Oceania from...
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    Outlying Islands (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island). Crocombe noted that Easter Island, Lord Howe...
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    United States Minor Outlying Islands Jarvis Island Kingman Reef Midway Atoll Palmyra Atoll Kiribati Phoenix Islands (of which only Canton Island is inhabited)...
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    the family Noctuidae. It is now possibly extinct and was endemic to Midway Atoll. Walker, A. & Medeiros, M.J. (2021). "Agrotis fasciata". IUCN Red List...
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    significant risk to the atoll and its wildlife. The Pearl and Hermes Atoll is the third northernmost atoll of Hawaii, behind Midway and Kure, approximately...
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    translocated to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in 2002. These thrived in their new surroundings, and another group were later relocated to Kure Atoll. Named...
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    Wake Island (redirect from Wake Atoll)
    flower'; also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll in the Micronesia subregion of the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The atoll is composed of three islets...
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