Kure Atoll (/ˈkʊəriː/; Hawaiian: Hōlanikū, lit. 'bringing forth heaven'; Mokupāpapa, 'flat island') or Ocean Island is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean 48...
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400 kilometers) from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. Formerly called the Sandwich Islands by Europeans (not by Kānaka Maoli...
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List of islands of Hawaii (redirect from List of islands of Midway Atoll)
island of Hawaiʻi to the northernmost Kure Atoll. Despite being within the boundaries of Hawaii, Midway Atoll, comprising several smaller islands, is...
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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...
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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)...
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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)...
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northwest to Kure Atoll, and the Emperor Seamounts: together they form a vast underwater mountain region of islands and intervening seamounts, atolls, shallows...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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