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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



Fig. 45. — U.S.S. Bushnell off Canton Island. Length, 350 feet ; displacement, 



4.000 tons. 



46. — British radio station, right, and United States radic 

 as seen from lagoon of Canton Island. 



tation, left, 



Fig. 47. — Swains Island, a tropical paradise, is about a mile and a half in 

 diameter. The rim of this atoll, about 600 feet wide, keeps the sea out of 

 Lake Namo, the latter occupying the center of the island. 



