Tag: kingman reef
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Unseen tides and fierce sun remold Kingman Reef’s coral heart
Hardly any land stands above the water here. What appears on charts as Kingman Reef is, in physical terms, almost an argument with the sea: a mostly submerged coral atoll in the North Pacific, far southwest of Honolulu and north of American Samoa, with only the slightest scraps of dry ground showing at low tide.…