■ ROBERT S. STANDEE 
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Hawland Isl and Island Description Cont # 
Alon4£ the eastern side the ridge is only about 
lOrtfeet above sea level and is more fittingly des f 
cribed as the edge of the island# Here it drops o 
off s.teeply to the waters edge in less than 5 0 
feet# * I 
The main land surface drops off gently from the 
low wurrorrcling ridge to the interior and to the 
south with the area around North Point being a l&k 
little higher than the rest . In this higher area 
and extending about half a mile down the eaEt&rn 
side are at least 2 tracks of old beac£ lines# 
These curious road-l$ke tracks are curved, run ]3ff 
parallel to, and are about 200 yards from the pres 
ent beach line# 
Running down the middle of the island is a depress 
ion which is only about 8 feet above sea level j 
in some places. It is an irregular, narrow, some-! 
times branching serries of micro valleys that 
the site of all the dead Cordia trees and the one 
living one on theisland. It trends north and 
south a nd is surrounded by the general low of j 
the center of the island# Here and there are j 
patches of completely bare ground where rocky 
coral reaches the surface and has not yet been H 
broken down into soil to support the grasses 
which cover the rest of the island# 
The only makks of civilization are the Amelia 
Earhart* Lighthouse in the middle of the western 
ekere ridge and reminents of the wall and other 
debris of theold settlement just to the north of 
it. Three walls of one small building still 
stand and two dry, stone lined wells can be found 
just east of the settlement near the center of 
the island. 
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Several bulldozed scrapes and smll.pits used for 
core samples can be seen as reminents of AEC 
work here in 1963* 
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