The Coral Sea operation in May was actually an integral part ... defensive perimeter more than a thousand miles further by seizing the western Aleutians, Midway Island, and, ultimately, Fiji Samoa and ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN ... We took a boat out from the island, towards the coral reef that surrounds it. There, you can feel the awesome power of nature. Caught in the reef ...

Today the island has no permanent civilian population. The Japanese military stations small units there to respond to maritime emergencies in the area. Midway is a coral atoll that is ...

The sun shimmered on Midway Islands, a remote speck of reef halfway between California and China. A rainbow of colors from shallow mounds of coral rippled in the clear water. The sea’s usual ...

MIDWAY ISLANDS — Late last summer ... and I looked underwater and saw that there was a patch of coral that would have been reasonably pretty, and got close enough until ultimately I could ...

The sizeable phantom island in the Coral Sea is shown as Sandy Island on Google Earth and Google maps and is supposedly midway between Australia and the French-governed New Caledonia. The Times ...

RANGE: The seal lives throughout the northwestern Hawaiian islands, with six main reproductive sites at Kure Atoll, the Midway Islands ... usually on talus or sand near coral reefs, but sometimes in ...