![]() ![]() Kure Atoll was acquired by the United States of America as part of the Territory of Hawai‘i on July 7, 1898. In 1894 the island was leased for guano mining, but no mining was ever done. The ship's crew built a shack and left provisions and water tanks for shipwrecked sailors. On September 20, 1886, the ship Waialeale arrived at Kure and James Boyd took possession of the island in the name of King Kaläkaua and the Hawaiian Kingdom. Some of Hawaii’s oldest known shipwrecks, such as the USS Saginaw (1870) and what may be the whaleship Parker (1842) lie undisturbed at Kure Atoll. Like many locations in the NWHI, Kure is a low and inconspicuous feature, only unreliably located by historic charts of the past, a submerged and often unseen hazard. Beginning in 1837, numerous ships have run aground on the reefs at Kure (previously known as Cure Island), and crews were stranded on the atoll for up to nine months at a time, eating monk seals, turtles and seabirds to survive while they constructed smaller craft to make the long passage back to the settled Main Hawaiian Islands. Prior to 1827 Kure Atoll was visited by a half a dozen ships, and given a new name after each visit. It is also a wintering area for a variety of migratory bird species from North America and Asia. The island is a nesting area for shearwaters, petrels, tropicbirds, boobies, frigatebirds, albatrosses, terns and noddies. Green Island is the only permanent island in the atoll. ![]() Kure is an oval-shaped atoll, which is 6 miles at its maximum diameter and 55 miles west-northwest of Midway Atoll at the extreme northwest end of the Hawaiian archipelago. Kure Atoll is the most remote of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and the northern-most coral atoll in the world. More information about the volunteer program can be found at. It is important habitat for wildlife such as the endangered Laysan duck and the Hawaiian monk seal it is also a nesting site for 18 species of seabirds. Kure Atoll, or Holaniku, is part of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, 1,400 miles northwest of Oahu. Most of the work is dedicated to invasive plant removal, the DLNR said. These natives prevent erosion and increase the nesting success of seabirds.” “This work was done by many hands who worked year-round to remove the most destructive weeds and plant native Hawaiian plants. “Over the last 20 years DLNR has been working to transform Kure Atoll State Wildlife Sanctuary from a tangled mess of weeds to a resilient functioning ecosystem that supports over one million nesting seabirds, hundreds of shorebirds and 80 endangered Laysan ducks,” Kure Atoll Conservancy Executive Director Cynthia Vanderlip said in a statement. The land department’s Division of Forestry and Wildlife, in partnership with the Kure Atoll Conservancy, announced the program, during which volunteers will be trained to conduct invasive plant removal invasive species monitoring and plant identification wildlife plant propagation and distribution safe animal handling and beach cleanups to remove wildlife entanglement and ingestion hazards. ![]() The state Department of Land and Natural Resources is looking for volunteers for a six-month habitat restoration program at the Kure Atoll State Wildlife Sanctuary, located in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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