La Perouse Pinnacle

La Perouse Pinnacle is a small, uninhabited rocky island in the Pacific Ocean, which geographically belongs to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and politically to the U.S. state of Hawaii. Is named the island after the French explorer Jean -François de La Pérouse.

Geography

La Perouse Pinnacle is located in the center of the French Frigate Shoals, the largest of the diameter ago atoll of the Hawaiian Islands. The steeply collected from the lagoon basalt rock is the now almost completely submerged remainder of the former central volcano represents the island has an area of ​​3677 m² ( 0.0037 km ² ) and reaches a height of 36 m above the sea. A publication from 1971 gives a length of 229 meters in the northwest -southeast direction, and a maximum width of 50 meters.

Since the other motus of the atoll are coralline origin, provides La Perouse Pinnacle, a special habitat for animals and plants, especially algae, dar. The rock is covered with some moss and grass.