871 Free Photos of Papahanaumokuakea

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A congregation of adult and juvenile sooty terns (Onychoprion fuscatus) on Eastern Island

A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) rests on the appropriately named Turtle Beach

Adult red-footed booby (Sula sula) in flight

A red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) parent with its chick

White tern (Gygis alba) chicks are the fluffiest little creatures I've ever seen

A juvenile Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) at Brackish Seep

Coral at Gardner Pinnacles (Cropped)

One of the first Laysan albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis) to return for the mating season

A great frigatebird (Fregata minor) flies low over Catchment for a quick drink

An adorable white tern (Gygis alba) chick against Midway's blue shoals

Brown noddies (Anous stolidus) hanging out at the end of the runway

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) sits on its nest

A red slate pencil urchin (Heterocentrotus mamillatus) on Midway's fringing reef

underwater snorkeling

A sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) in flight

Academician Berg and Turnif seamounts in the northernmost extent of PMNM

Ornate Butterflyfish at Pearl and Hermes

Close-up of a brown noddy (Anous stolidus)

An adorable white tern (Gygis alba) chick against Midway's blue shoals

PMNM Octopus

The sun rises over Midway's harbor

landscape water

A juvenile sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) on Eastern Island

An adult red-footed booby (Sula sula) perches in an ironwood tree

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) and its chick

A sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) chick begs for food

Looking northwest, towards the water tower, from south of the USFWS office

landscape grass

A Bonin petrel (Pterodroma hypoleuca) sits in the yard of the Volunteer House

A sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) chick begs for food

The ocean view in pretty much any direction

A lone tree growing on Midway's airfield

landscape grass

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) and its chick

PMNM - Birds on French Frigate Shoals

An adorable white tern (Gygis alba) chick against Midway's blue shoals

As it decomposes, an albatross carcass reveals the plastic the bird consumed before it died

Red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) in flight

Close-up of a black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes)

A double rainbow all the way across the sky at North Beach

A great frigatebird (Fregata minor) flies low over Catchment for a quick drink

Marine debris, largely composed of plastic, intermingles with organic material that has washed up on Midway

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

A juvenile Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) bathes at Catchment

A hungry red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) chick squawks for food

Spit Island

A red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) sits on its nest

A red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) sits under an artificial shade structure

Chief Boatswain Jerrod Hozendorf loads some final stores before getting underway

world heritage site store

Anchor from Wreck of the Pearl

underwater travel

Looking into the harbor from the north side of the harbor entrance

landscape water

A male great frigatebird (Fregata minor) flies low over Catchment

A pair of brown noddies (Anous stolidus) mate on the beach

A white-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) flying around the old orchard

A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) swims near the Cargo Pier

Fish swimming through Midway's fringing reef

A Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) that came and sat right in the driveway of the USFWS office

Midway as seen from just outside the fringing reef

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) and its chick

PMNM - Conducting shoreline marine debris removals at Lisianski Island

PMNM - laysan albatross

PMNM Debris Clean Up

PMNM diver and wreck

A juvenile red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda)

Passenger waiting area and Naval Air Facility sign, left over from the Clipper era

A white tern (Gygis alba) checks me out

Brown noddies (Anous stolidus) hanging out at the end of the runway

A male great frigatebird (Fregata minor) perched in an ironwood tree pants to keep cool

Close-up of a black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes)

This white tern (Gygis alba) chick hatched inside an abandoned pumping station

Plastic marine debris washed up on North Beach

landscape sunny

A juvenile Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis) bathes at Catchment

Very unusual colors in the clouds over Midway's lagoon

Marine debris, largely composed of plastic, intermingles with organic material that has washed up on Midway

A red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) parent with its chick

This white tern (Gygis alba) chick hatched inside an abandoned pumping station

Marine debris, largely composed of plastic, intermingles with organic material that has washed up on Midway

PMNM - sea turtle hatchlings

Head On with a Trevally

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) sits on its nest

Portrait of a juvenile red-footed booby (Sula sula)

A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) rests on the appropriately named Turtle Beach

reptiles animals

A flock of bristle-thighed curlews (Numenius tahitiensis) gathers in Midway's "Boneyard"

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) calls at sunset

Dandelion Siphonophore

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) chick

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) sits on its nest

Look at the feet on this white tern (Gygis alba) chick!

Portrait of a sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) on Eastern Island

The U.S. Coast Guard C-130 that flew me to Midway preparing to leave

aircraft airplane

A juvenile red-footed booby (Sula sula) in flight

Spectacular sunset over North Beach

landscape water

Close-up of a sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) in flight

A brown noddy (Anous stolidus) returns to its nest and waiting chick

Close up of an adult red-footed booby (Sula sula)

A sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) in flight

A red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) parent with its chick

A white tern (Gygis alba) parent waits for its fledging chick to return for a meal

A U.S. Coast Guard C-130 parked in front of the NAF Hangar

military aircraft

Lisianski Dead Coral

scientist ocean

French Frigate Shoals Reefscape

Spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) swimming in Midway's lagoon

underwater ocean

Close-up of a brown noddy (Anous stolidus)

A sea cucumber... ahem... "making sand"

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