Rose-Atoll
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The Rose Atoll, also rose Iceland, is an uninhabited, almost square-shaped atoll in the Pacific Ocean, part of the territory of American Samoa. The land area is 0.214 km ², and the total area of the atoll lagoon is around 5 km ². In the northeast of the coral reef are two islands, the larger Rose Iceland in the east and the vegetation-free sand in northern Iceland.
The Rose Atoll is the farthest south to U.S. territory.
The first documented sighting of a European was made by Louis de Freycinet in 1819. Shortly thereafter (1824 ), was spotted the atoll of an expedition under Otto von Kotzebue, who named it after his first lieutenant Kordinkow again.
The two islands form as an important bird roost and breeding sites of the green sea turtle since 1973, the Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.
Plaque of the USFWS
Sources / Links
Samoa: Aleipata Islands | Apolima | Manono | Savaii | Upolu
American Samoa: Aunuu | Ofu Olosega | Rose Atoll | TAU | Tutuila
- Group of islands (American Samoa)
- Archipelago (Pacific ocean )
- Island Group ( Australia and Oceania)
- Uninhabited islands
- Atoll
- Nature reserve in Australia and Oceania