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A lone tree growing on Midway's airfield

landscape grass

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) and its chick

An adorable white tern (Gygis alba) chick against Midway's blue shoals

As it decomposes, an albatross carcass reveals the plastic the bird consumed before it died

Red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) in flight

Close-up of a black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes)

A double rainbow all the way across the sky at North Beach

A great frigatebird (Fregata minor) flies low over Catchment for a quick drink

Marine debris, largely composed of plastic, intermingles with organic material that has washed up on Midway

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

A juvenile Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) bathes at Catchment

A hungry red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) chick squawks for food

A red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) sits on its nest

A red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) sits under an artificial shade structure

USS Crowley (DE-303) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 2 April 1944 (NH 75850)

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USS Nashville (CL-43) off the Mare Island Navy Yard

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USS Fletcher (DD-445) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), circa in mid-August 1943 (NH 63537)

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USS Ross (DD-563) underway off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 27 June 1945 (NH 107271)

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USS Smith (DD-378) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 15 January 1942 (19-N-26694)

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Curtiss SOC-3A Seagull landing aboard USS Long Island (AVG-1) on 17 June 1942 (80-G-14257)

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Activities on USS Mobile enroute to Marcus Island for raid…

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Four-power treaty on Pacific Islands showing signatures of principal delegates, 12-15-21 LCCN2002697157

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Four-power treaty on Pacific Islands showing signatures of principal delegates, 12-15-21 LCCN2002697158

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127-N-71319 - Bougainville. Pfc. H.J. Finley and war dog P…

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Marine PFC George C. Miller, of 458 Ocean Ave., Jersey Cit…

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Higgins boats move in toward smoke covered island of Taraw…

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40 of 'The Earth and its Inhabitants. The European section of the Universal Geography by E. Reclus. Edited by E. G. Ravenstein. Illustrated by ... engravings and maps' (11124879483)

maps from the earth and its inhabitants, vol. vi islands of the pacific ocean

SC 184775-S - Lt. Rial Smith, Jersey Shore, Pa., Air Evacuation Nurse, watches carefully while a soldier wounded in the fighting on Bougainville Island in the Solomons is unloaded from a plane...

army medical department casualty

Officers' Row lit by the light of the full moon

architecture dark

A bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis) inspects a danger sign on an old building

Sitting in a rather dangerous spot, this juvenile Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) probably won't fledge

A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) rests on the appropriately named Turtle Beach

wildlife reptiles

An elderly Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) with a highly worn leg band

A juvenile Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) preens its back

Standard view from the Clipper House dining hall

landscape summer

Yellow coral grows in Midway's fringing reef

A black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) regurgitates food for its chick

A black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) regurgitates food for its chick

The first Murphy's petrel (Pterodroma ultima) ever recorded on Midway Atoll—which I spotted!

A red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) parent with its chick

A white tern (Gygis alba) approaches from the lone tree on the airfield

Close-up of a potential white-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) nesting site

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) and its chick

Looking into the harbor from the north side of the harbor entrance

landscape water

A male great frigatebird (Fregata minor) flies low over Catchment

A pair of brown noddies (Anous stolidus) mate on the beach

A white-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) flying around the old orchard

A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) swims near the Cargo Pier

Fish swimming through Midway's fringing reef

A Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) that came and sat right in the driveway of the USFWS office

Midway as seen from just outside the fringing reef

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) sits on its nest

A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) rests on the appropriately named Turtle Beach

reptiles animals

A flock of bristle-thighed curlews (Numenius tahitiensis) gathers in Midway's "Boneyard"

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) calls at sunset

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) chick

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) sits on its nest

Look at the feet on this white tern (Gygis alba) chick!

The U.S. Coast Guard C-130 that flew me to Midway preparing to leave

aircraft airplane

Spectacular sunset over North Beach

landscape water

USS Engstrom (DE-50) underway off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 27 February 1945 (19-N-79871)

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NOAA/USFWS field staff on Laysan and Lisianski Islands and Pearl & Hermes Reef, facing two hurricanes and a supertyphoon, are evacuated to Midway Atoll by two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft from U.S. Marine Corps Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163.

airplane pacific

USS Young (DD-580) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 26 July 1945 (NH 102858)

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SC 170655 - .30 caliber machine gun emplacement and crew used by a battalion for protection, somewhere in New Guinea.

military police pacific theater

SC 364495 - A 50. cal. water-cooled machine gun and crew at the old jetty on Orange Beach, Arawe, New Britain.

pacific theater m2 machine gun

SC 405012 - A Marine carries a Japanese boy out of a cave, after he was forced to shoot the boy's father who chose to fight rather than surrender.

mariana islands usmc

SC 405065 - American soldiers pass out K rations to native children. Small Japanese boy in foreground seems happy with his share.

mariana islands pacific theater

SC 179458 - During the American drive on Chichagof Bay, our forces came across groups of Japanese soldiers 20 or 40 in a group;

7th infantry division pacific theater

SC 364608 - Heavy 81mm mortar firing into Jap positions across the Tsinamutu River, near Kuraio Mission, Bougainville. 24 February, 1944.

pacific theater mortar

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula, Jodocus Hondius II, circa 1636

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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula, Jodocus Hondius I, circa 1636

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Kahakuloa Hawaiian Congregational Church

architecture village

SC 171523 - At the forward Division Command Post the Signal Corps established and maintains communications. Attu, Aleutians. 1943.

communication signal corps

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SC 171596-R - First Island Command, New Caledonia. Jap prisoners arrive at their new prison camp which has just been completed.

prisoner of war new caledonia

Waikiki Sunset.

Infantryman knocking door of a hut open with his rifle in native village of [censored], Dutch New Guinea. 1 August, 1944.

6th infantry division pacific theater

SC 179464 - During the American drive on Chichagof Bay, our forces came across groups of Japanese soldiers 20 or 40 in a group;

7th infantry division pacific theater

SC 334743 - Firing at the enemy with concentrated rifle, BAR and grenade fire. Soldier at right center has just tossed a grenade.

37th infantry division pacific theater

SC 179463 - During the American drive on Chichagof Bay, our forces came across groups of Japanese soldiers 20 or 40 in a group;

7th infantry division pacific theater

SC 270784 - Men of the 7th Div., U.S. Army, looking out for snipers. Smoke in background is Jap fuel dump on Enilapkan Island, Kwajalein.

7th infantry division pacific theater

A New General Map of America Drawn from several Accurate particular Maps and Charts and Regulated by Astronomical Observations., Emanuel Bowen, 1747 (undated)

1740s maps of the americas 1747 maps of north america

Lasioglossum channelense, f, side, California, Santa Barbara Co 2015-11-24-10.04

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SC 364353 - 1st wave of 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division invasion forces load into landing craft from U.S. Destroyer U.S.S. Bush. Momote Bay, Manus Island, Admiralty Group.

1st cavalry division pacific theater

USS Long Island (CVE-1) in San Francisco Bay, California (USA), on 10 June 1944 (80-G-236393)

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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula, Jodocus Hondius II, circa 1636

jodocus hondius ii, nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula, 1636 eran laor cartographic collection

SC 190555-S - In their slit trench which is half filled wi…

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USS Barb (SS-220) underway in May 1945

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A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

One of the first black-footed albatross pairs (Phoebastria nigripes) to return for the mating season

Spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) swimming in Midway's lagoon

underwater ocean

A white tern (Gygis alba) parent waits for its fledging chick to return for a meal

Beautiful blue water in Midway's lagoon

A large group of Laysan ducks (Anas laysanensis) gathers at Catchment

NOAA's marine debris ship, the Hi'ialakai, at night

A black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) (or hybrid Laysan–black-footed, potentially)

A great frigatebird (Fregata minor) flies low over Catchment for a quick drink

A flock of bristle-thighed curlews (Numenius tahitiensis) gathers in Midway's "Boneyard"

Two oval butterflyfish (Chaetodon lunulatus) swim through Midway's fringing reef

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