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Thotfgh barely over the horizon from Hidway, Ooean Island, the 
most northwesterly point in the leeward chain is seen more seldom than 
any of the other atolls or islands in the entire group* On older maps 
other islands marked as Patrooinio, iiorell or Byer are usually shown 
farther to the westward but modem surveys have shown that these are 
non-existent* Ocean Island at present consists of an irregular oirole 
of coral four miles or so in diameter with a small semioiroular island 
known as Green Island, 1,800 yards long by GOO yards wide at its eastern 
side. One or two sand spits, bare of vegetation, lie on either hand. The 
island is only 25 feet above the sea at its hipest point, and is so low 
that the atoll is a considerable menace to navigation in these waters* 
The surrounding reef has been the end of a number of ships and most of 
our knowledge of green Island has come from those shix>wrecked there or 
from ships that have stopped there for a brief space to search for castaways. 
As early as 1838 we find record of the loss of the gledstanes * while nearly 
fifty years later came the Dunotta r C astl e* Col* James E. Boyd, in charge 
of the party that resoued the orew of the latter ship, took possession of 
the island, whi& was christened a<gftuPapaya* for the Hawaiian government 
on September 20 , 188 64 ^ 
