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in two unpublished reports (Woodside and Kramer, 1961, and Kramer and 
Woodside, 1961 ) to the Division of Fish and Game. One member of the Division 
accompanied the POBSP to the island in February 1963 and submitted a 
separate report (Kramer, 1963 ) to that agency. 
Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program personnel have spent a total 
of 15 days on Lisianski on seven different trips since February 19 63 . 
Personnel from the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, and the Division 
of Fish and Game of the State of Hawaii have been present on several of 
these trips. Dates and personnel for each visit are listed in Table I. 
Population estimates and breeding notes are available from each trip, though 
limitations of time precluded thorough observations on some visits. 
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Description 
? Lisianski (Figure III) is a low sand and coral island oi approximately 
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45L acres. It is situated at the northern end of a large reef bank which 
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is about 65 square miles, or 4l,322 acres, in area. The island, resembling 
a parallelogram in outline, is approximately 2000 yards long, north to 
south, and 1100 yards wide, being somewhat wider to the north. Its circum¬ 
ference is about 3-23 statute miles. 
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The N eastern beach is dominated by an exposed ledge of reef rode, with 
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small tidal pools, behind which a narrow rocky beach rises sharply for about 
ten feet to the vegetated interior. South of the rock ledge a low curving 
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beach extends to the southeastern corner. There is a vertical drop of about 
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tJa?ee feet, caused by wind and wave erosion, from the vegetated interior to 
this beach. The beach widens at the southeastern corner, and there is a 
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large unvegetated cut into the Scaeyola behind this beach. The bcaeh on "the 
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