Beniicc P. Bishop Museum — B,illctiii 



Tliere are three breaks in the land rim which connects the lagoon with 

 the sea — the north and south canoe passages, both of which are very 

 shallow, and a much wider and deeper channel on the southwest side which 

 is navigable for vessels of light draft. (See PI. I, A). The lagoon shore 

 is, in most places, a narrow, sandy beach. 



NORTH R\SSAGE 



Figure i. Outline map of Fanning Island, based on a survey by Clarence A. 

 Brown. The length of the lagoon is approximately 9 miles. 



The island is now occupied by the Fanning Island Limited — an English 

 copra company — and by a cable station of the Pacific Cable Board, the 

 station being an important relay on the cable line between Sydney and 

 Bamfield, B. C. Acknowledgment is hereby made of the courtesy and 

 generosity of the managements of the.se two establishments through whose 

 assistance the survey was made possible. 



During the survey of Fanning Island general collection of plants and 

 animals were made on the land, the outer shore, and in the lagoon. The 

 paucity of seaweeds in the waters about the island was very noticeable. 

 A few small varieties of filamentous algae attached and free-floating seemed 



