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An elderly male Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) with a blue leg band

A Bonin petrel (Pterodroma hypoleuca) sits in the yard of the Volunteer House

Several juvenile great frigatebirds (Fregata minor) perched in a beach naupaka (Scaevola taccada) bush

A spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) breaches in Midway's lagoon

A female great frigatebird (Fregata minor) in flight

A rainbow hangs over the Midway aviary on the morning of the 2014 Laysan duck translocation to Kure Atoll

A juvenile Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) sits in the sun

This white tern (Gygis alba) chick has a cozy little shade spot

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

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

80-G-49886 (25224739555)

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SC 190556-S - Sgt. Sam Marinkovich, Anaconda, Mont., Sgt. …

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USS Selfridge (DD-357) in the Solomon Islands, 5 August 1943 (80-G-266036)

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

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

A U.S. Coast Guard C-130 parked in front of the NAF Hangar

military aircraft

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

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Close-up of a brown noddy (Anous stolidus)

A sea cucumber... ahem... "making sand"

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

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A juvenile Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) bathes at Catchment

A red slate pencil urchin (Heterocentrotus mamillatus) on Midway's fringing reef

A thin strip of clouds hangs over Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

A shoe and a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

A patch of beach morning glory (Ipomoea pes-caprae)

A red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) chick under an ironwood tree

A school of convict tang (Acanthurus triostegus) swims through Midway's fringing reef

underwater fish

Close-up of a wedge-tailed shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) chick

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

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

Cross on the north side of Midway's harbor

landscape water

A white tern (Gygis alba) distracts my subject, a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)

A rainbow hangs over the Midway aviary on the morning of the 2014 Laysan duck translocation to Kure Atoll

landscape nature

A school of convict tang (Acanthurus triostegus) swims through Midway's fringing reef

underwater fish

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

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

underwater ocean

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

A school of convict tang (Acanthurus triostegus) swims through Midway's fringing reef

underwater fish

Yellow coral grows in Midway's fringing reef

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) and its chick

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

A juvenile Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) with a red leg band quacks

Damaged USS San Francisco (CA-38) at Mare Island in December 1942

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Grumman TBF-1 Avenger on elevator of USS Long Island (AVG-1), in 1942 (80-G-K-15225)

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USS St. Louis (CL-49) off Mare Island on 6 March 1942 (19-N-28229)

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USS Wesson (DE-184) anchored off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 1 July 1945 (NH 107615)

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USS Cabana (DE-260) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 18 May 1945 (NH 97447)

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USS Pensacola (CA-24) underway off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 20 May 1944 (19-N-66951)

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Grumman F4F-4 Wildcats of VGS-1 are launched from USS Long Island (AVG-1) on 17 June 1942 (80-G-14548)

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Aft view of USS Cabana (DE-260) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 18 May 1945 (NH 97449)

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John Williams in 1845 (missionary ship, 1844) PY0584, Edward Duncan

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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

USS Saratoga (CV-3) moored at Ford Island circa in June 1945

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Ala Wai Boat Harbour Honolulu.

Saling into the sunset. Hawaii.

Canadian Pacific's 'Princess May' - on the rocks!

Dug in on the beach: Shallow foxholes dug and communications set up, (black rods in the foreground are antennas for portable radios), and the first wave of Marines to hit the beach at Saipan are there to stay.

mariana islands usmc

SC 171595-R - First Island Command, New Caledonia. Japanese prisoners moving their bedding into tents at their new camp just completed. 7 January, 1943.

prisoner of war new caledonia

SC 364494 - Heavy machine gun crew set up quickly on the beach near Aitape, New Guinea.

m1917 machine gun pacific theater

SC 171600 First Island Command, New Caledonia. Warehouse used to house Jap prisoners while permanent camp was being built. 7 January, 1943.

prisoner of war new caledonia

SC 195585-S - A water tank trap, one of the many futile attempts made by the retreating Japanese on Leyte Island to retard the onslaught of the American invasion, is crossed by members of the famed U.S. 1st Cavalry Division. October, 1944.

1st cavalry division pacific theater

SC 334994 - Gen. J. Lawton Collins, CG of the 25th Division, scans treetops over which mortar fire must pass.

25th infantry division pacific theater

SC 335383 - Some of the men of the 120th F.A. which gave valuable support to the 112th Cavalry at Aitape, New Guinea.

pacific theater group portrait

SC 171524 - After supply trucks had bogged down in the coastal mud the tractors found that the hard bed of this stream afforded good traction. Attu, Aleutians. 1943.

alaska and aleutian islands pacific theater

SC 171521 - Signal Corps radio crew on transport maintaining contact with first wave as it lands on Attu, Aleutians. 11 May, 1943.

pacific theater communication

SC 179455 - Two American soldiers going over the body of a Japanese soldier killed in the "suicide raid" in search of souvenirs. 1 June, 1943.

7th infantry division pacific theater

SC 364415 - Papuan natives furnish Christmas entertainment for Yanks and Aussies by performing one of their native dances at Fort Moresby, New Guinea. 25 December, 1943.

solomon islands and new guinea pacific theater

SC 270579 - Infantry troops marching towards the Mindanao River in pursuit of Japs retreating near the Fort Pikit Ferry, Mindanao Island. 22 April, 1945.

pacific theater the philippines

SC 329679 - Soldiers of the 24th Infantry in New Georgia, man a 37mm gun used for beach against the enemy. 15 October, 1943.

african-american servicemen pacific theater

SC 184760 - Major A. W. Beeman, QMC and Capt. M. R. Foster, S.C., inspecting wrecked Japanese landing barge on beach road in New Guinea.

solomon islands and new guinea pacific theater

Pigs forage in front of wrecked Jap tank knocked out by Marine grenade and bazooka fire. Another Jap tank is in background. 16 June, 1944.

mariana islands usmc

USS Pensacola (CA-24) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 29 June 1945 (19-N-87787)

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USS Crowley (DE-303) underway off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 2 April 1944 (NH 75849)

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USS Fletcher (DD-445) at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), 13 August 1943 (19-N-50812)

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USS Selfridge (DD-357) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), 10 April 1944 (80-G-316296)

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Wounded Marines from Bougainville fighting are unloaded fr…

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USS Adams (DM-27) off Mare Island in June 1945

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Portrait of Kaneena, a chief of the Sandwich Islands in the North Pacific Ocean - drawn by J. Webber ; engrav'd by A.W. Warren. LCCN90716769

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SC 190525 - Mortar crew of 164th Inf. Regt., Americal Div.…

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80-G-49887 (24929127640)

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Hispaniae Novae Nova Descriptio., circa 1611(undated)

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Lasioglossum knereri, F, Side, WA, San Juan County 2014-05-09-19.16.28 ZS PMax

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A sailboat attempts to enter the closed waters of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

A school of convict tang (Acanthurus triostegus) swims through Midway's fringing reef

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

Close-up of a wedge-tailed shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) chick

Yes, that white tern (Gygis alba) is sitting on an egg laid on a chunk of broken concrete dangling from the end of a piece of rebar

White-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) against a blue sky

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

Two pairs of black-footed albatrosses (Phoebastria nigripes) shortly after returning to Midway for the breeding season

A small sampling of the marine debris collection I amassed during the four months I spent on Midway

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) chick

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

The Midway aviary, used as a temporary holding place for Laysan ducks captured for translocation as part of the USFWS Species Recovery Plan

The sun sets between two fuel tanks

The Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge/Battle of Midway National Memorial/Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument sign by the cargo pier

Close-up of an adult female Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis)

Ultra-long exposure of the Milky Way over the Midway sign by the cargo pier (attempt #1)

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