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This is Laysan Island in the Midway or Leeward Islands in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
By Mark on August 27, 2010
This is a Youtube video taken of Layman Islands, not sure about the music though.
This is a post on Laysan Island it is located 808 nautical miles (1,496 km; 930 mi) northwest of Honolulu , Hawaii at N25° 42′ 14″ W171° 44′ 04″, is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. This Island is basically a comprise of one land mass of 1,016 acres (4.11 km2), about 1 by 1.5 miles in size (1.6 by 2.4 km). It is an atoll of sorts, this means that it is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely. But on Layman Island it is all land that completely surrounds a shallow central lake, this lake is some 8 feet (2.4 m) above sea level that has a salinity approximately three times greater than the ocean, so wikipedia is saying that the lake is three times more salty than in the ocean, so it would not come as a surprise to see some kind of life within the lake, but it would have had to adapt to the salinity conditions. The actual Hawaiian name of Laysan is Kauō this means egg, it is referring to the Islands shape and how much life springs from the island.
As above I mentioned that this Island is full of life, well it is, but it is mainly birds and insects, there are some 23 different types of bird species on Layman with the more popular ones known as Laysan Finch, the Laysan Duck and the Laysan Albatross. Sadly some of the species has now become extinct like the Laysan Rail the Laysan ʻApapane and the Laysan Millerbird. The three known insects that have now become extinct are the Laysan Dropseed Noctuid Moth, the Laysan Noctuid Moth and the Procellaris Grotis Noctuid Moth, which have all sadly gone. It is ashame that humans who are supposingly expected to help creatures, end up killing them off, for food, oil, wood, gas etc, just so we can keep surviving. As long as there are people in this world, many species of life will die off, but it is not just mans fault, changes in enviroment also plays apart to. As I write these posts it excites and saddens me at the same time, because, I am finding things which I did not know myself, like species becoming extinct, species that I in my life time will never see again. So with all this over fishing and over eating of meat and vegetables, can planet earth keep going, probably not if we are not careful. This is a beautiful Island, lets try and keep it this way and keep the life going on Layman Island. But this is my owsn opinion, many other people may disagree and that is fine with me.
Here is a brief bit of history about a period of extinction that occured on the Island, What happened was that some rabbits were put of the Island, but they grew so quickly and multiplied at a fast rate, that before the people knew it the rabbits had outnumbered some of the bird species and the vegetation for feeding the rabbits started to limit. In the early 20th century, complaints from the native people came rushing in, about the rabbits and also Japanese poachers, this then led President Theodore Roosevelt to declare the Northwestern Hawaiian chain a bird sanctuary in 1909. Max Schlemmerknown as the “King of Laysan” and superintendent of a guano mining operation he continued to allow the Japanese to export illegal bird wings and so was removed from the island. But because of the rabbit population, there became less and less plants to hold the earth together, much of the soil and sand became loose and blew about in horrific dust storms. By 1918, the rabbits had eaten so much that the remaining vegetation was only enough to sustain 100 rabbits. Sadly due to this scenario it ended up that twenty-six plant species had been eradicated, and the Laysan Millerbird had gone extinct. But it was not until 1923 when the Tanager Expedition arrived, they went on to get rid of the rabbits and for the Island it was along time coming. But even though they succeed in exterminating the rabbits the bird population had been reduced to about a tenth of its former size, and three endemic taxa had become extinct, plus numerous other plant species. Two other endemic species, the Laysan Duck and the Laysan Finch, survive to this day, but are endangered.
- Learn about Layman Island on Wikipedia:
- Learn about the Midway Islands on Wikipedia:
- Learn abouth the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on Wikipedia:
- Find Layman Island on Google Maps:
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