Lisianski Island

Lisianski (Hawaiian: Papaāpoho ) is a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean, which geographically belongs politically to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and the U.S. state of Hawaii.

Geography

The island is located 215 km west of the neighboring island of Laysan and is about 1700 km from the capital Honolulu away on Oahu. Lisianski represents the small and sandy, the sea surface piercing, highest elevation of the Neva Shoals, a 979 km ² comparatively large coral reef. The island itself, however, has only an area of ​​1.556 km ² and reaches the north a height of up to 12 m above sea level.

History

The island was discovered and named after Yuri Fyodorovich Lisjanski (Russian: Юрий Фёдорович Лисянский ), a captain of the Imperial Russian Navy, whose ship Neva was stranded during a Weltumseglungsexpedition under the leadership of Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern on October 15, 1805 in the reef east of the island. Three days later, on 18 October, the island he was entered for the first time. 1857 Lisianski was, like most other islands in the chain, for the Hawaiian King Kamehameha IV taken into possession. How Laysan was leased in 1890 to reduce Guano twenty years at the North Pacific Phosphate and Fertilizer Company also Lisianski. In 1909, the island became part of the bird sanctuary Hawaiian Islands Bird Reservation, in 2006 a part of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monuments. Lisianski may be entered only with special permission from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services for scientific purposes today.

Wildlife ( fauna)

Introduced mice and rabbits as well as poachers, eggs and feather collectors led to the early 20th century led to a drastic decline in bird populations indigenous to Lisianski. Thus, in a single action t springs were in 1910, so after the founding of the bird sanctuary, 1.4 confiscated and burned, which is about 140,000 birds. Widely used on the island today are the Sooty Tern ( Onychoprion fuscata ) and the Bonin shearwater ( Pterodroma hypoleuca ) nest of the nearly 75 % of all Hawaiian specimens on Lisianski. Come on migratory birds among others, the Pacific Golden Plover ( Pluvialis fulva, hawaiian: kolea ), the peregrine Redshank (Tringa incana, hawaiian: ulili ) or the bristle curlew (Numenius tahitiensis, hawaiian: Kåñëa ) ago.

In addition, the island is a retreat for the Hawaiian monk seal (Monachus schauinslandi, hawaiian: Sila Hawaii) or the green turtle (Chelonia mydas, hawaiian: Honu ).

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