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n the center of the north Pacific Ocean and consists of islands, atolls, submerged banks and shoals, trending northwest by southeast in the between latitudes 19° N and 29° N. The island chain extends approximately 2,400 km (1,500 miles) from the Island of Hawaii in the southeast to Kure Atoll in the

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ongest mountain chain in the world Grigg (1983) (Fig. 13.1). Located in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian Islands have been referred to as the most geographically isolated archipelago in the world. The islands are ~3,800 km from the nearest continental landmass, the west coast of N

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across 2,000 km of the North Pacific between 23 and 29 degrees north latitude and consists of nine major islets, coral islands and/or atolls. Numerous reefs, submerged banks and seamounts also exist between and around the main islands. Together with the Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI), the Hawaiian Arc

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4042-6ther US territory or State (GAO 1997; US DOI 2003). There are eight PRIA and all are under the jurisdiction of the US Department of Interior (DOI). All are low reef islets or atolls in the central Pacific Ocean. Table 15.1 and Fig. 15.1 present the size, location, and regional geography of the five

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Markup Languages: More Than HTML5o frequently referred to by the name of their main islands: Johnston Island and Wake Island. They have in common that they are both coral atolls located in the North Pacific Ocean (Fig. 17.1), both are exclusive properties of the US Department of Defense and neither had an indigenous islander popula

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Markup Languages: More Than HTML5ll 1995; Paulay 2003). The Mariana Islands have a long history of dedicated coral reef investigations by international and US researchers begun by Agassiz (1903). Despite having been discovered by the Spanish in 1521, these islands were rarely visited by Westerners due to their isolation. The Spanis

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