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2 unusual facts about Northwestern Hawaiian Islands


Laysan Dropseed Noctuid Moth

This moth was endemic to Laysan Island, one of the Outlying Hawaiian Islands, United States.

Tanager Expedition

The Tanager Expedition was a series of five biological surveys of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands conducted in partnership between the Bureau of Biological Survey and the Bishop Museum, with the assistance of the U.S. Navy.


Asymphorodes dimorpha

It is found in Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Lanai, Hawaii, Nihoa, Necker Island, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Midway, Kure, Wake island, Canton island, Jarvis island, but is probably much more widely distributed in the Pacific.

Bamboo coral

Recently, a mission funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discovered seven new species of bamboo coral in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, a U.S. National Monument lying primarily in deep waters off the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, using the Pisces V.

Chenopodium oahuense

It is also found on Lisianski Island, Laysan, the French Frigate Shoals, Necker Island, and Nihoa.

Crocidosema leprarum

It is endemic to Oahu, Molokai, Nihoa, Necker Island, French Frigate Shoals and Laysan.

Havaika

Specimens from Necker Island and Nihoa (northwest of Kaua'i) did not fit into the four defined morphotypes.

Helicoverpa hawaiiensis

It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known from Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Lanai, Hawaii, Nihoa and Necker Island.

Hyposmocoma malornata

It is endemic to Necker Island, Nihoa, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii.

Laysan Noctuid Moth

It was endemic to Laysan Island, one of the Outlying Hawaiian Islands, United States.

Schiedea verticillata

Schiedea verticillata, known as the Nihoa Carnation, is an endangered species of carnation, endemic to the island of Nihoa in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, where it was discovered in 1923 by the Tanager Expedition.


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Pearl and Hermes Atoll

In June 2006, George W. Bush declared the atoll and all other parts of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.