Wirtz, W. 
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26 Feb. 1963 
W€ arrived #t Pearl and Henne® Reef &!>out 0830 this morning® By 
9 the first boat, with Binion, Boh aha I aboard, made shore. The south 
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east landing was very good today as the wind was from the north end the 
sea was calm. There is a low flat ledge of coral jutting out shout 20 yards 
at the boat landing, end as the tide went out it was almost exposed* 
This ledge necessitates getting out of the boat about 20 yards from the 
shore end running the boat in to the beech by hand through the water. 
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Because the bottom drops sharply outside the reef the ship was eble to 
anchor much closer to the lending than it had been able to do at Leyssn 
and Lisianski. 
We set up camp on the south side of Southeast Island, between the 
ponds and the beach, near the left or west end pond. We had our two tents, 
plus a screened room which we found on the island, which needs only a 
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terp for a good shelter for our less perishable gear. There ere many 
oil drums in this area and we knocked the tops out of s - few of them for 
trash cans. We brought in our table and chairs end also all of our new 
water cans. 
The islend is larger than I had expected, though quite low and 
barren as we had anticipated. Most of the surface is dotted with chunks of 
coral, there are almost no bushes of an sort, and the ground for the 
most part has only a scant flora of puncture vine and species succulent and 
on the south side of the ponds is a grassy area about 30-40 yards wide and 
100 yards long. E~W. The benches are steep and narrow, with mostly coarse 
sand. The lagoon between the two sections of the island nearly separates 
the sections, and this lagoon between the two sections area is 
