Isles of refuge : wildlife and history of the northwestern Hawaiian Islands
"Nihoa, Necker, French Frigate Shoals, Gardner Pinnacles, Maro Reef, Laysan, Lisianski, Pearl and Hermes Atoll, Midway, Kure - the remote, uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands form a 1,100-mile arc across the middle of the North Pacific Ocean. Collectively known as the Leeward Islands, they rarely appear in tourist maps of Hawai'i and remain largely unknown (with the exception of Midway) to visitors and residents. Although they constitute a mere 1 percent of Hawai'i's land mass, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to a wide range of marine life that continues to thrive nowhere else in the state
Print Book, English, ©2001
University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, ©2001