Remote Islands

Exploring the World’s Most Remote Islands

Tag: marine debris

  • Driven by a duck’s return, Laysan Island finds balance

    Driven by a duck’s return, Laysan Island finds balance

    Far out in the Northwestern Hawaiian chain, beyond the busy imagination most people attach to Hawaiʻi, a low ring of coral and sand holds a shallow lake in its center and lets the Pacific work at its edges without interruption. Laysan Island lies roughly 1,500 kilometers northwest of Honolulu, inside the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument,…

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