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Lisianski Island

Lisianski Island (Hawaiian

Hawaiian language

The Hawaiian language is an Austronesian languages that takes its name from Hawaii , the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed....
: Papa‘apoho) is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or the Leeward Islands are the small islands and atolls in the Hawaiian Islands located northwest of the islands of Kauai and Niihau....
, with a land area of and a maximum elevation of 40 feet (12 m) above sea level. Honolulu is away, to the southeast. Linked to Lisianski are the extensive Neva Shoals. Access to the island is limited to a narrow sandy inlet on the southeastern side of the island.

The island is volcanic, and is undergoing a slow process of erosion

Erosion

For morphological image processing operations, see Erosion 'For use of in dermatopathology, see Erosion Erosion is the removal of solids in the natural environment....
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Lisianski Island (Hawaiian

Hawaiian language

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Erosion

For morphological image processing operations, see Erosion 'For use of in dermatopathology, see Erosion Erosion is the removal of solids in the natural environment....
. There is a depression

Depression (geology)

Depression in geology is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. Depressions may be formed by various mechanisms, and may be referred to by a variety of technical terms....
between two tall sand dunes, that is thought to once have been a lagoon

Lagoon

A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow sea water or brackish water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed Bar , reef, or similar feature....
like the one on Laysan

Laysan

Laysan , located northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii at N25? 42' 14" W171? 44' 04", is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It comprises one land mass of 1,016 acres , about 1 by 1.5 miles in size ....
, its nearest neighbor. For this reason, the island's selected Hawaiian name, Papa‘apoho, means "island with a depression". Over three-quarters of the Bonin Petrel

Bonin Petrel

The Bonin Petrel, Pterodroma hypoleuca, is a seabird in the family Procellariidae. It is a small gadfly petrel that lives in the waters of the north west Pacific and nests on islands south of Japan and in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands....
s that nest in Hawaii

Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
nest here. Recent discovery of subfossils on the island indicate that Laysan Duck

Laysan Duck

The Laysan Duck , also known as the Laysan Teal because of its small size, is an endangered dabbling duck endemic to the Hawaiian Archipelago....
populations occurred on the island, possibly as a result of the former lagoon.

The Island is named after Yuri Feodorovich Lisyansky, an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy

Imperial Russian Navy

The Imperial Russian Navy refers to the Tsarist Naval fleet prior to the Bolshevik Revolution....
. Lisianski was the commanding officer of the sloop-of-war

Sloop-of-war

In the 18th and the earlier part of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a small sailing warship with a single gun deck that carried anything up to eighteen cannon....
Neva, an exploratory ship which ran aground on the island in 1805. Lisianski reported the Island to be of little interest, except insofar as its surrounding reef

Reef

In nautical terminology, a reef is a Rock , bar , or other feature lying beneath the surface of the water .Many reefs result from abiotic processes?deposition of sand, wave erosion planning down rock outcrops, and other natural processes?but the best-known reefs are the coral reefs of tropical waters developed through biotic processes do...
s and shoal

Shoal

Things known as shoal, shoals or shoaling include:* Shoal, a sandbank or reef creating shallow water, especially where it forms a hazard to shipping...
s posed a threat to passing vessels.

King Kamehameha IV

Kamehameha IV

Kamehameha IV, born Alexander Iolani Liholiho Keawenui, reigned as the fourth king of the united Kingdom of Hawaii from 11 January 1855 to 30 November 1863....
claimed the island for the Hawaiian Kingdom in May 10, 1857. In 1890, the North Pacific Phosphate and Fertilizer Company acquired a twenty-year lease on the Island from the Kingdom of Hawaii

Kingdom of Hawaii

The Kingdom of Hawaii was established during the years 1795 to 1810 with the subjugation of the smaller independent chiefdoms of Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Kauai and Niihau by the chiefdom of Hawaii into one unified government....
. Later, in 1909, Lisianski became part of the new Hawaiian Islands Bird Reservation established by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt , also known as T.R., and to the public as Teddy, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States....
. Prior to this, there had been concern about the poaching

Poaching

Poaching is the illegal hunting, fishing or eating of wild plants or animals contrary to local and international Conservation and wildlife management laws....
of birds on the island.

Neva Shoals

Neva Shoals is a shallow reef

Reef

Oahu

'Oahu' or 'Oahu' , known as Gathering_place#Island_of_O.7B.7Bokina.7D.7Dahu_as_The_Gathering_Place, is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the State of Hawaii....
, directly southeast of the island. Neva Shoals was named by Lisiansky, after his ship Neva. The reef has been described by divers as a "coral garden" because of the great variety of coral. 24 types of coral were identified at the reefs surrounding Lisianski.

Lisianski Island

Neva Shoals

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