Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the ...

President Barack Obama went to Midway Atoll, halfway between California and China in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Why? Because he’d just announced the expansion of Papahānaumokuākea Marine ...

Albatross travel thousands of miles every year over the open ocean but always ... balance of power in the Pacific changed forever. American involvement with Midway Atoll goes back well before ...

President Barack Obama slipped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean wearing only fins, trunks, a mask, and a snorkel. The sun shimmered on Midway Islands, a remote speck of reef halfway between ...

“Midway” referred to the small atoll roughly halfway between ... in six months than had Japan. Its Pacific Empire ranged from the Indian Ocean to the coast of the Aleutian Islands, and from ...

Researchers say it could be one of the most significant discoveries of its kind First banded in 1956, the Laysan albatross has become a mother once again at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge ...

to the impact of the American victory on the rest of the war in the Pacific. He chooses to begin with a Prologue set in an unexpected action, but one that establishes his major theme for Midway, the ...

Her last offspring hatched in 2021. The world's oldest known wild bird has laid an egg at the impressive age of 74, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for the Pacific Region reports.