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Although located to the west of Midway Atoll, Kure Atoll has a time zone 1 hour ahead at UTC−10:00 (the same as the rest of Hawaii). Kure is the northernmost coral atoll in the world. [2] [3] It consists of a 6-mile (10 km) wide nearly circular barrier reef surrounding a shallow lagoon and several sand islets.
Kure History. 1799-1835 1836-1893 1894-1940 1941-1978 1992-2016. 1799 – Captain Don M. Zipiani of the Spanish vessel Senhor del pilar discovered an island at about Kure’s longitude and latitude and named it Patrocinio. 1825 – Captain Benjamin Morrell Jr. Schooner Tartar and named it Morrell. 1827 – Captain Stankovitch Russian ship Moller.
In 1894, Kure Atoll was leased for guano mining; however, no mining was ever done here. The U.S. acquired Kure Atoll as part of the Territory of Hawaii in 1989. Twenty years later, in 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt made Kure part of the Hawaiian Islands Bird Reservation.
Kure Atoll was acquired by the United States of America as part of the Territory of Hawai‘i on July 7, 1898. In 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt made Kure part of the Hawaiian Islands Bird Reservation, reserving the atoll for the Department of Agriculture as a preserve for native birds.
Kure atoll, the northernmost coral atoll in the world, is a former volcano, and the oldest part of the Hawaiian Island Chain still above water. Diameter of the atoll is 9.3 km (5.8 mi). (Public domain.)
Kure Atoll or Ocean Island is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean 48 nautical miles west-northwest of Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at 28°25′N 178°20′W. A coral ring 10 km across encloses a lagoon several meters deep. The only land of significant size is called Green Island and is a habitat for hundreds of thousands of seabirds. A short, unused and unmaintained runway and a ...
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The oldest member of the Hawaiian archipelago still above water, Kure Atoll, formed about 30 million years ago. The age of the earth, which has been estimated by measuring the amounts of various radioactive elements in its crust and in meteorites, is about 4.6 billion years—more than 150 times the age of Kure Atoll.
