Fred, Bihlon, and Allen then finished the Albatross and worked up 
the noddies, rest of the party took off on flight for Pearl and Henr.ee 
at 0900 hours. We started at north island and flow countpr clockwise 
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around the atoll once end 1000*. Then we dropped down to two hundred 
feet and headed around the atoll clockwise starting at north again. 
At the southwest corner we swung east again and went back counter 
clockwise alone the south side. We made two additional passes over 
southeast island only four of tbo islands have vegetation. The sand 
bar south of north island is much larger thanthe charts indicate. 
Both bird and sand island have no vegetation and one of them was almost 
carpietely swashed today which was calm. Also in the southwestern 
corner Eittery Island has no vegetation either. Southeast island 
appeared dry today there three separate ponds in it’s Eastern end 
instead one large one as Bob observed previously the landing coming 
in from the southeast looked good today, this is the one which is 
not on the charts. There are several 55 gal. oil grume and one large 
long scructure on the eastern half of the island. The tower 
appears to have no floor in it, there appears to tent phatform or some 
wooden structure perhaps the floor to the towlar. On the northern 
shore of the e? stertn half of the island we observed many seals and 
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nuaerour tuttles ©11 up on the islands, and swimming the lagoon. We 
could detect Albatross on the ground from the plane, and some of the 
bare sand islands had no or few birds on then. We saw one frigatebird 
