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Laysan

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Laysan (Hawaiian: Kauō), located northwest of Honolulu at N25° 42' 14" W171° 44' 04", is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. [1]

77 relations: Achyranthes atollensis, Agrotis dislocata, Agrotis evanescens, Albatross, Alfred Marshall Bailey, Amaranthus brownii, August 1900, Black-footed albatross, Bonin petrel, Bristle-thighed curlew, Canoe plants, Capparis sandwichiana, Chenopodium oahuense, Christmas shearwater, Coverage of Google Street View, Crocidosema leprarum, Cyclorama, Cyperus pennatiformis, Dryotribus mimeticus, Eragrostis, Eragrostis variabilis, Erechthias kerri, European rabbit, Hawaiian blackhead triplefin, Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian monk seal, Hyposmocoma ekemamao, Hyposmocoma laysanensis, Index of Hawaii-related articles, Island restoration, Kamehameha IV, KAUO, Kingdom of Hawaii, Laysan albatross, Laysan dropseed noctuid moth, Laysan duck, Laysan finch, Laysan hedyleptan moth, Laysan honeycreeper, Laysan millerbird, Laysan noctuid moth, Laysan rail, Lisianski Island, List of albatross breeding locations, List of endemic bird areas of the world, List of islands in the Pacific Ocean, List of islands of Hawaii, List of regions of the United States, List of species of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, List of volcanoes in the Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain, ..., Mallard, Max Schlemmer, Monk seal, Montipora dilatata, Nihoa millerbird, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Oodemas laysanensis, Pearl and Hermes Atoll, Pritchardia remota, Procellaris grotis noctuid moth, Samla bicolor, Santalum ellipticum, Sereno Edwards Bishop, Sporobolus, Tanager Expedition, Teraina, Tinselfish, University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3), USS Bering Strait (AVP-34), USS Lanikai, USS Laysan Island (ARST-1), Vitaphone Varieties, Wisdom (albatross), 172nd meridian west, 1985 Pacific hurricane season, 26th parallel north. Expand index (27 more) »

Achyranthes atollensis

Achyranthes atollensis (also called atoll achyranthes or Hawaii chaff flower) was a species of plant in the Amaranthaceae family.

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Agrotis dislocata

The Lesser Native Cutworm (Agrotis dislocata) is a moth of the Noctuidae family.

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Agrotis evanescens

Agrotis evanescens is a moth of the Noctuidae family.

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Albatross

Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses).

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Alfred Marshall Bailey

Alfred Marshall Bailey (February 18, 1894 – February 25, 1978) was an American ornithologist who was associated with the Denver Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature and Science) in Colorado for most of his working life.

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Amaranthus brownii

Amaranthus brownii is an annual herb in the Amaranthaceae family.

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August 1900

The following events occurred in August 1900.

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Black-footed albatross

The black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) is a large seabird of the albatross family Diomedeidae from the North Pacific.

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Bonin petrel

The Bonin petrel (Pterodroma hypoleuca) is a seabird in the family Procellariidae.

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Bristle-thighed curlew

The bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis) is a medium-sized shorebird that breeds in Alaska and winters on tropical Pacific islands.

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Canoe plants

Canoe plants, or Polynesian introductions, are plants taken from ancient Polynesia and transplanted to other Pacific Islands The term is particularly used to refer to plants brought to Hawaiokinai 1,700 years ago by Polynesian explorers.

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Capparis sandwichiana

Capparis sandwichiana is a species of flowering plant in the Capparaceae family endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

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Chenopodium oahuense

Chenopodium oahuense is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common names aweoweo, alaweo, alaweo huna, aheahea, ahea, ahewahewa, and kahaihai.

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Christmas shearwater

The Christmas shearwater (Puffinus nativitatis) is a medium-sized shearwater of the tropical Central Pacific.

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Coverage of Google Street View

Google Street View was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and until November 26, 2008, featured camera icon markers, each representing at least one major city or area (such as a park), and usually the other nearby cities, towns, suburbs, and parks.

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Crocidosema leprarum

Crocidosema leprarum is a moth of the Tortricidae family.

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Cyclorama

A cyclorama is a panoramic image on the inside of a cylindrical platform, designed to give viewers standing in the middle of the cylinder a 360° view, and also a building designed to show a panoramic image.

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Cyperus pennatiformis

Cyperus pennatiformis (formerly Mariscus pennatiformis)USFWS.

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Dryotribus mimeticus

Dryotribus mimeticus is a species of beetle in family Curculionidae.

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Eragrostis

Eragrostis is a large and widespread genus of plants in the grass family, found in many countries on all inhabited continents and many islands.

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Eragrostis variabilis

Eragrostis variabilis is a species of grass known by the common names variable lovegrass, kawelu, emoloa, and kalamalo.

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Erechthias kerri

Erechthias kerri is a moth of the family Tineidae.

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European rabbit

The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) or coney is a species of rabbit native to southwestern Europe (including Spain, Portugal and Western France) and to northwest Africa (including Morocco and Algeria).

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Hawaiian blackhead triplefin

The Hawaiian blackhead triplefin (Enneapterygius atriceps), also known as the Hawaiian triplefin in Hawaii, is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Enneapterygius.

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Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands (Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, numerous smaller islets, and seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiokinai in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.

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Hawaiian monk seal

The Hawaiian monk seal, Neomonachus schauinslandi (formerly Monachus schauinslandi), is an endangered species of earless seal in the family Phocidae that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

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Hyposmocoma ekemamao

Hyposmocoma laysanensis is a species of moth of the Cosmopterigidae family.

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Hyposmocoma laysanensis

Hyposmocoma laysanensis is a species of moth of the Cosmopterigidae family.

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Index of Hawaii-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to the U.S. state of Hawaii.

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Island restoration

The ecological restoration of islands, or island restoration, is the application of the principles of ecological restoration to islands and island groups.

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Kamehameha IV

Kamehameha IV, born Alexander ʻIolani Liholiho (February 9, 1834 – November 30, 1863) reigned as the fourth monarch of Hawaii under the title: Ke Aliʻi o ko Hawaiʻi Pae ʻAina of the Kingdom of Hawaii from January 11, 1855 to November 30, 1863.

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KAUO

KAUO may refer to.

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Kingdom of Hawaii

The Kingdom of Hawaiʻi originated in 1795 with the unification of the independent islands of Hawaiʻi, Oʻahu, Maui, Molokaʻi, and Lānaʻi under one government.

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Laysan albatross

The Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) is a large seabird that ranges across the North Pacific.

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Laysan dropseed noctuid moth

The Laysan dropseed noctuid moth (Hypena laysanensis) was a species of moth in the Erebidae family.

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Laysan duck

The Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis), also known as the Laysan teal, is a dabbling duck endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

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Laysan finch

The Laysan finch (Telespiza cantans) is a species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, that is endemic to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

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Laysan hedyleptan moth

The Laysan hedyleptan moth (Omiodes laysanensis) is a species of moth in the Crambidae family.

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Laysan honeycreeper

The Laysan honeycreeper or Laysan apapane (Himatione fraithii) is an extinct bird species that was endemic to the island of Laysan in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

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Laysan millerbird

The Laysan millerbird (Acrocephalus familiaris familiaris) was a subspecies of the millerbird, similar in appearance to the remaining subspecies, the Nihoa millerbird.

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Laysan noctuid moth

The Laysan noctuid moth (Agrotis laysanensis) was a species of moth in the Noctuidae family.

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Laysan rail

The Laysan rail or Laysan crake (Porzana palmeri) was a flightless bird endemic to the Northwest Hawaiian Island of Laysan.

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Lisianski Island

Lisianski Island (Hawaiian: Papa‘āpoho) is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with a land area of and a maximum elevation of above sea level.

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List of albatross breeding locations

The following is a list of locations where albatrosses breed, together with a list of the species found at each location.

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List of endemic bird areas of the world

The following is a list of endemic bird areas of the world, as defined by Birdlife International - see main article (Endemic Bird Area).

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List of islands in the Pacific Ocean

This is a list of many of the major Pacific islands, organized by archipelago or political unit.

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List of islands of Hawaii

The following is a list of islands of Hawaii.

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List of regions of the United States

This is a list of some of the regions in the United States.

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List of species of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

This is a list of the species that inhabit the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

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List of volcanoes in the Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain

The Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain is a series of volcanoes and seamounts extending across the Pacific Ocean.

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Mallard

The mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Falkland Islands, and South Africa.

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Max Schlemmer

Maximilian Joseph August Schlemmer (April 13, 1856 – June 13, 1935) known as the "King of Laysan" was a German immigrant to the United States who settled in Hawaii and spent fifteen years from 1894 to 1915 living with his family on the Hawaiian island of Laysan as superintendent of a guano mining operation.

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Monk seal

Monk seals are earless seals of the tribe Monachini.

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Montipora dilatata

Montipora dilatata, commonly known as the Hawaiian reef coral, is a species of coral in the family Acroporidae.

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Nihoa millerbird

The Nihoa millerbird (Acrocephalus familiaris kingi) is a subspecies of the millerbird.

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Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or the Leeward Islands are the small islands and atolls in the Hawaiian island chain located northwest (in some cases, far to the northwest) of the islands of Kauai and Niihau.

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Oodemas laysanensis

Oodemas laysanensis, the Laysan weevil, was a species of beetle in family Curculionidae.

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Pearl and Hermes Atoll

The Pearl and Hermes Atoll (Holoikauaua) is part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, a group of small islands and atolls that form the farthest northwest portion of the Hawaiian island chain.

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Pritchardia remota

Pritchardia remota, the Nihoa pritchardia, Nihoa fan palm, or Loulu, is a species of palm endemic on the island of Nihoa, Hawaiokinai, and later transplanted to the island of Laysan.

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Procellaris grotis noctuid moth

The procellaris grotis noctuid moth (Agrotis procellaris) was a species of moth in the Noctuidae family.

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Samla bicolor

Samla bicolor is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine heterobranch mollusc in the family Samlidae.

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Santalum ellipticum

Santalum ellipticum, commonly known as Iliahialoe (Hawaiian) or coastal sandalwood, is a species of flowering plant in the European mistletoe family, Santalaceae, that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

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Sereno Edwards Bishop

Sereno Edwards Bishop (February 7, 1827 – March 23, 1909) was a scientist, Presbyterian minister and publisher.

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Sporobolus

Sporobolus is a nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family.

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Tanager Expedition

The Tanager Expedition was a series of five biological surveys of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands conducted in partnership between the Bureau of Biological Survey and the Bishop Museum, with the assistance of the U.S. Navy.

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Teraina

Teraina or Teeraina, also known as Washington Island (both names are constitutional) is a coral atoll in the central Pacific Ocean and part of the Northern Line Islands which belong to Kiribati.

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Tinselfish

The Grammicolepididae are a small family of deep-sea fishes, called tinselfishes due to their silvery color.

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University of Iowa Museum of Natural History

The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, founded in 1858, is a museum on the University of Iowa campus at Iowa City, Iowa.

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USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3)

USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3) was a United States Navy ''Stalwart''-class modified tactical auxiliary general ocean surveillance ship that was in service from 1984 to 1993.

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USS Bering Strait (AVP-34)

USS Bering Strait (AVP-34) was a United States Navy small seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1946. She tended seaplanes during World War II in the Pacific in combat areas and earned three battle stars by war's end. After her U.S. Navy career ended, the ship served in the United States Coast Guard as the cutter USCGC Bering Strait (WAVP-382), later WHEC-382, from 1948 to 1971, seeing service in the Vietnam War. The Coast Guard decommissioned her at the beginning of 1971, and she was transferred to South Vietnam and served in the Republic of Vietnam Navy as the frigate RVNS Trần Quang Khải (HQ-02) until South Vietnams collapse at the end of the Vietnam War in April 1975. She fled to the Philippines, where she was incorporated into the Philippine Navy, in which she served from 1980 to 1985 as the frigate BRP Diego Silang (PF-9) and as BRP Diego Silang (PF-14) from 1987 to 1990.

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USS Lanikai

USS Lanikai, was a schooner-rigged diesel powered yacht commissioned into the United States Navy during both World War I and World War II, before being transferred to the Royal Australian Navy.

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USS Laysan Island (ARST-1)

USS Laysan Island (ARST-1) was a Laysan Island class salvage craft tender of the United States Navy.

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Vitaphone Varieties

Vitaphone Varieties was a series title (represented by a pennant logo on screen) for all of Warner Brothers' earliest short film "talkies" of the 1920s, initially done with the Vitaphone disc process before a switch to the sound-on-film format early in the 1930s.

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Wisdom (albatross)

Wisdom is a wild female Laysan albatross.

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172nd meridian west

The meridian 172° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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1985 Pacific hurricane season

The 1985 Pacific hurricane season is the third most active Pacific hurricane season on record.

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26th parallel north

The 26th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 26 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laysan

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