Pacific Vegetation Survey Files 
Discussion of Voyda and Rappaport: "Aspect of Man’s Influence upon 
Island Ecosystems. 
Ellis, Albert F., 1936, Sydney Adventuring in Coral Seas, (copy of article) 
"Hull Island 
band plants; Abundance of wild portulaca (pigweed) 
Vegetation: About 20,000 coconuts landed there in 1887 , to be 
planted. 
Baker Island 
Vegetation: " - in our time there was not a single tree on it. The 
largest bushes were only about three feet high, and even these were 
not plentiful." p. 19 . 
Howland Island: 
Land plants: Wild portulaca. 
Vegetation: "In the center there is a clump of scrubby trees 
about fifteen feet in height and covering an area of several acres;" 
p. 20 
Author’s party planted several thousand coconuts. Reported 
to have since died in drought period. 
Cant on Island : 
Vegetation: no trees except "a single fair-sized coconut palm at 
the eastern end,--" p. 53 * Sole survivor of many planted by Arundil Co. 
