Lisianski Island

Coordinates: 26°03′51″N 173°57′57″W / 26.064031°N 173.965802°W / 26.064031; -173.965802
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Lisianski Island
Native name:
Papa‘āpoho
View of Lisianski from the air.
Lisianski Island is located in Pacific Ocean
Lisianski Island
Lisianski Island
Geography
LocationPacific Ocean
Coordinates26°03′51″N 173°57′57″W / 26.064031°N 173.965802°W / 26.064031; -173.965802
ArchipelagoNorthwestern Hawaiian Islands
Area384.425 acres (155.571 ha)
Length1.2 mi (1.9 km)
Width0.6 mi (1 km)
Coastline3.1 mi (5 km)
Administration
StateHawaii

Lisianski Island (Hawaiian: Papa‘āpoho) is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with a land area of 384.425 acres (155.571 ha) and a maximum elevation of 40 feet (12 m) above sea level. It is a low, flat sand and coral island about 905 nautical miles (1,041 mi; 1,676 km) northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.[1] The island is surrounded by reefs and shoals, including the extensive Neva Shoals. Access to the island is possible only by helicopter or by boat via a narrow sandy inlet on the southeastern side of the island.

Administration

Politically, Lisianski Island is part of the

Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge, it is administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
. It has no resident human population.

Geology and topography

Lisianski Island is made of

subfossils on the island indicate that Laysan duck
populations once occurred on the island, possibly inhabiting the former lagoon.

History

Lisianski Island is named after Yuri Lisyansky, a Russian Imperial explorer and an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy. Lisyansky was the commanding officer of the Russian-American Company's merchant sloop Neva, which was on an exploration mission as part of the first Russian circumnavigation of the world when she ran aground on the island in 1805. Lisyansky reported the island to be of little interest, except insofar as its surrounding reefs and shoals posed a threat to passing vessels.

King

Kingdom of Hawaii on 10 May 1857. In 1890, the North Pacific Phosphate and Fertilizer
Company acquired a twenty-year lease on the island from the Kingdom of Hawaii.

After the

Hawaiian Islands Bird Reservation — which later became the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge — established by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Prior to this, there had been concern about the poaching of birds on the island.[1][4]

When Hawaii became a U.S. state in August 1959, Lisianski Island became part of the new State of Hawaii. On June 15, 2006, it was included in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.[5]

Neva Shoals

The coral at Neva Shoals

Neva Shoals is a shallow

Reef fish are abundant, including predators.[6]

A bathymetric chart of the Neva shoal
A satellite image of the Neva shoal

See also

  • List of volcanoes in the Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain
  • List of islands
  • Desert island

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b "Lisianski Island and Neva Shoals" Archived 2006-09-29 at the Wayback Machine National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 12-22-2011.
  2. ^ Bryan, p. 10.
  3. ISBN 0-8248-0832-0
    .
  4. ^ "NWHI: About: Lisianski Island" Archived 2004-03-18 at the Wayback Machine Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Multi-Agency Education Project. Retrieved October 12, 2011
  5. ^ "U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge: About the Refuge". Archived from the original on 2021-10-22. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  6. ^ a b "Lisianski Island" Archived 2004-03-18 at the Wayback Machine, a University of Hawai'i webpage

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