Notes of Stanley C. Ball on 19^5 Hawaiian Leewards Survey ~ 
Gardner Pinnacles - Tuesday - May 22 
Left "Tanager” in two boats -- surf boat with King_, Wetmore^ Wilder_, 
Schlermner_, and Dr. Wilson. All but King landed on south island. 
Whale boat with Grants Ihaanum^ Dranga_, Lawrence^ Baker^ Lones_, and Ball. 
Dranga swam ashore and landed on north island through surf. 
Ball and Thaanum transferred to surfboat and landed on larger island 
(south) after picking up Dranga and rock. 
Ball collected insects and spiders. Thaanum and Dranga collected shells 
sea _. 5 species sea urchins. 
Dranga found dead fish at tern’s nest. Baker caught enormous Hinalea 
and Thalasoma imibrostigma. Wilder took Goby^ algae and Portulacca. 
Wetmore and Schlemmer found 11 species birds - including Sterna saxatilis. 
Boats returned to Tanager for lunch. 
Ball^ Dranga^ and Baker went over to lee of island for 1 l/2 hours fishing. 
Caught sharks^ Lepidaplais (G?awa). Saw ’’Yellow Wenvi” and swordfish or 
marlin. Baker hooked one of a dozen ulua. 
Tanager got away at 9 P*M. after difficulty with oil pumps. 
Gardner consists of 2 islands which from the west and east appear as 
one. S with a central higher island and larger mass flanked by two smaller 
ones. Dranga landed at A (north rock)^ later Thaanum got onto the S. islet 
also. Landing effected on larger island at B. (See diagram in notes - PBC) 
and boat roae on swell. 
Apparently a volcanic core or part of rim. Cheifly basaltic. Occasional 
rough lava patches much worn by surf. Dike of harder basalt runs through 
Northern island cutting vertically through layer of lava whose pitch is 
towards SW at 50°• 
The strata on larger S island are less marked, being twisted. Photos 
will show these features. 
Under the overhanging cliff at C and at other less conspicuous points an 
abundant matrix (sample A) has embedded in it large smooth boulders (B) and 
smaller ones (B), 
Veins of calcarious(?) material - very thin run in all directions through 
the harder basalt. 
Much of the rock has become somewhat and appears to contain much 
iron - rusty. ^ I 
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Near point C several small cracks ware giving forth water impregnated 
with mineral matter which was forming wiaite crystals. (See samples.) 
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