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20 Feb. 1963 
Four of the party went out early thle morning to net Ha/alien 
noddies. They only got 3 samples from 11 birds. Fred, Binion end Allen 
then finished the albatross and did these noddles. 
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At 0900 Bob end I, plus the captain end the bosin, took off with 
Lt. McDaniel to fly over Pearl end Hermes and then bsck out to Kure, 
We started at North Island and flew counter clock wise sroung the atoll 
once at 1000 feet. Then we dropped down to 200 feet end starting with 
North again* At the southweet corner we swung eest again and went back 
counter clock wise along the south side. We made two ad itionel passes 
over Southeast Island • Bob took a roll of slides. Only four of the 
islands have vegetation. The send bar south of North is much larger then 
the charts indicate. The two islands west of Southeast, and near the marked 
channels, have no vegetation, and none of them was almost completely awash 
today, which was calm. The northern most island of the two in the south 
west corner has no vegetation either# 
Southeast appeared dry today# There a^e 3 separate ponds in its south¬ 
east corner, instead of one as Boh had observed previously. The landing 
coining in from the southeast look good toasy, This is the one which i s not 
on the charts. There are several 55 gallon oil drums, and one large long 
cylindrical structure, perhaps the floor in it# There appears to he a tent 
platforms, or some wooden structure, perhaps the floor to the tower, on the 
northern shore of the eatern half of the island. 
We observed many seals end numerous turtles hailed up on the islands 
and some swimming in the lagoon# W© could only detect albatross on the 
ground, and some of the bare sand islands had no, or only a few, birds on 
them, I noted one frigate bird in the air, and we saw some 
