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Rose Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rose Island is an island within Narragansett Bay, in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Rose Atoll (sometimes as Rose Island) is an atoll in the U.S. territory of American Samoa. Republic of Rose Island was a shortlived micronation occupying a purpose-built artificial island platform in the Adriatic Sea in the late 1960s. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rose_Island   (169 words)

Rose Atoll Rose Atoll is the easternmost of the Samoan islands. Rose Atoll was discovered by Louis de Freycinet on October 21, 1819, on his voyage around the world in the Uranie and Physicienne. Accounts of Rose Atoll are to be found in Carnegie Institution of Washington Publications 340 and 341, 1924, written by Dr. Myor, Dr. William A. Setchell and others; and in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society for 1921, volume LX, pages 62-70. www.janeresture.com /rose   (946 words)

Rose Atoll :: A World Treasure in Peril :: Part I, Photo, Photos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Rose Atoll NWR is jointly managed by the United States and American Samoa governments. Rose Atoll’s beauty lies not only in its geometry but in the vibrant pink hue of its reefs – it is one of the few atolls whose primary element of construction is the pink calcareous coralline alga Porolithon. Rose’s reef system is of the classic spur-and-groove type: massive coralline shoulders extending outward from the atoll separated at regular intervals by deep troughs, grooves through which open ocean wave energy is funneled back to sea. www.oceanlight.com /log/2005/06/16/rose-atoll-a-world-treasure-in-peril.html   (626 words)

American Samoa Historic Preservation Office -- Geography It consists of the islands of Tutuila, Manu'a (Ta'u, Ofu and Olosega), Swains Island and Rose Atoll. Rose Atoll is 80 miles east of Ta'u and consists of two low sandy islands - Rose Island and Sand Island - encompassing a 2000m (6500ft) wide lagoon with a total land and reef area of 1600 acres. Rose Atoll is a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge. www.ashpo.org /geography.htm   (341 words)

PI - Rose Atoll NWR Rose Atoll NWR is the southernmost refuge in the National Wildlife Refuge System. Rose Atoll is included within the Territory of American Samoa and managed cooperatively by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the government of American Samoa. This atoll is uninhabited with two emergent islands on a doughnut-shaped reef. www.fws.gov /pacificislands/wnwr/prosenwr.html   (143 words)

Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, 14 degrees south of the equator and about 2,500 miles south of Hawaii, is at the east end of the Samoan archipelago, 180 miles east of Pago Pago, American Samoa. Rose Island, the larger of the two, is low, sandy, and thickly vegetated with shrubs, vines, and trees. Rose Atoll is part of the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex. www.fws.gov /refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=12514   (442 words)

Atoll still harbors toxic dangers - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper The nerve gas incinerator complex on Johnston Atoll has been dismantled and buried, but pollution threats persist on the remote island, and it may be a long time before it reverts to being a full-time wildlife refuge. Johnston is a remote atoll 800 miles southwest of Honolulu, where the military during World War II dredged up coral to create a runway, harbor and base, transforming a former sand bar into a small, rectangular industrial complex. Over the years, the island has been used for nuclear testing, chemical munitions storage, military herbicide storage and eventually for a prototype facility for the destruction of chemical munitions such as Sarin and VX nerve gas and the blistering agent called mustard. the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/Nov/23/ln/ln12a.html   (729 words)

News Release  - NOWRAMP Expedition The second sighting was at a shipwreck at Rose Atoll, located at the eastern end of the American Samoan island chain. The Rose Atoll shipwreck occurred in 1993 when a 250-ton ship broke up over the reef and spilled large quantities of fuel along the reef. At Rose Atoll, Maragos, who served as the contracting officer representative for the federal government during removal operations of the shipwreck, completed detailed monitoring studies documenting the relationship between Lyngbya and iron content on the reef. www.bishopmuseum.org /research/nwhi/nr19.shtml   (1161 words)

NOAA's National Ocean Service Office of Response and Restoration | Pollutants in the Environment | Abandoned Vessels Prior to the incident, the atoll was considered to be one of the least disturbed coral atolls in the world. The USFWS continued to monitor conditions at Rose Atoll and data collected in the years since the grounding indicate that conditions on the reef were deteriorating. The USFWS is currently seeking funding from the OSLTF for an uncompensated claim to remove the remaining vessel debris and monitor the long-term recovery of this atoll reef ecosystem. response.restoration.noaa.gov /topic_subtopic_entry.php?RECORD_KEY(entry_subtopic_topic)=entry_id,subtopic_id,topic_id&entry_id(entry_subtopic_topic)=162&subtopic_id(entry_subtopic_topic)=17&topic_id(entry_subtopic_topic)=2   (672 words)

[No title] The refuge boundaries extend outward to the 3-mile limit, except Palmyra Atoll with an outward boundary of 12 miles. The islands comprising American Samoa are Tutuila Island, Aunuu Island, Ofu Island, Olosega Island, Ta’u Island, and Rose Atoll. Rose Atoll (14°33'S., 168°09'W.), the farthest E of the Samoa Islands, is nearly square in shape; its sides are about 1.5 miles in length. chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov /NSD/CPREPORTS/CP-7/CP7-0425.doc   (3128 words)

Tikehau - Air Tahiti Magazine on-board magazine of the airplane company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Tikehau is an almost circular atoll enclosing a lagoon of 26 km, entered by small boats through its one pass in the reef. Its beauty and the abundance of its fauna are the basis of its scuba diving, notably in the pass of Tuheiava, where the graceful ballet of its manta rays alternates with processions of barracuda and tuna, without forgetting the presence of gray and white-pointed sharks. The Tikehau atoll rose by several meters at the same time as Makatea and the neighboring atolls and this has exposed Mio-Pliocene coral limestone to a maximum height of 13 meters. www.airtahitimagazine.com /us_version/tahiti_mag.asp?num=28&art=1   (1257 words)

A Glimpse of Samoa The distance from Rose Atoll on the east, to the west end of Savaii is about 290 nautical miles. To the westward of Savaii there are shoals, in which Pasco Bank, about 90 miles W.N.W. of Savaii, has 50 feet of soundings showing depths of 15,000 to 18,000 feet. Rose Atoll lies 78 nautical miles eastward from Tau. www.janeresture.com /samoa_glimpse   (1200 words)

ATOLL AND MOTU HISTORY: EUSTASY AND HYDRO-ISOSTASY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Annular atoll reefs perched atop carbonate platforms capping buried volcanic edifices of the Pacific Ocean basin are underlain by from 8 m to 28 m of Holocene limestone disconformably overlying a substratum of last-interglacial limestone. During glacio-eustatic drawdowns in Pleistocene sea level by as much as 120 m, carbonate platforms of modern atoll provinces rose abruptly from the sea surface as clusters of subaerial limestone plateaus with steep flanks (modern analogues are provided by atolls uplifted on the bathymetric arches of trench forebulges). During early Holocene eustatic rise in global sea level, atoll reefs began to grow by ~8 ka when rising sea level overtopped degraded remnants of interglacial reefs, but remained submerged until carbonate buildups approached sea level in mid-Holocene time. gsa.confex.com /gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_60580.htm   (385 words)

ReefBase: Resources: Overview: American Samoa - A Global Information System On Coral Reefs It is an unincorporated territory of the USA, and its administration also covers Swains Atoll, a remote atoll which lies between the main islands and those of Tokelau to the north. The reef rim of Rose Atoll is dominated by coralline algae. Swains Atoll lies at sea level, but there is a circular island on the reef flat completely enclosing the brackish atoll lagoon. www.reefbase.org /resources/res_overview.asp?changearea=true&Region=0&country=ASM   (424 words)

Talk:Extreme points of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shouldn't the southernmost point in the U.S. be Rose Atoll, rather than Steps Point, American Samoa? Rose Atoll, as far as I can tell, is part of American Samoa, is a U.S. wildlike refuge (even though it's all of about 10 acres), and is located about 10' SOUTH of Steps Point (14° 33' S as opposed to 14° 23')... Lowest major city is New Orleans at -15 ft. There is an indian village in Death Valley National Park with a couple hundred people that is the lowest town. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Extreme_points_of_the_United_States   (508 words)

Recreation.gov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, 14 degrees south of the equator and about 2,500 miles south of Hawaii, is the smallest atoll in the world with about 20 acres of land and 1,600 acres of lagoon. Rose Island, the larger of the two, is low, sandy, and thickly vegetated. It is an important nesting area for the threatened green sea turtle and endangered hawksbill turtle. www.recreation.gov /detail.cfm?ID=4009   (171 words)

EPA: Federal Register: Fisheries Off West Coast States and in the Western Pacific; Pelagic Fisheries; Prohibition on ... However, VMS may not be necessary for an effective area closure program with adherence to these new closures and cooperation among the fishermen, both small and large fishing vessel operators and the local community to avoid conflicts and localized depletions of the fisheries. Response: NMFS believes the 50-nm nearshore closure provides adequate protection for the fauna and flora at Rose Atoll, while striking a balance with the needs of large domestic longline fishing vessels for access to offshore fishing grounds. A large vessel of the United States may not be used to fish for Pacific pelagic management unit species in the American Samoa large vessel prohibited areas as defined in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section, except as allowed pursuant to an exemption issued under Sec. www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2002/January/Day-30/i2261.htm   (2749 words)

Samoa MARINE & WILDLIFE TOPICS We have some very interesting migration data for green sea turtles at Rose Atoll (see map below), where a tagging study was conducted in the mid-1990s. In all, 10 tagged turtles were recovered after nesting at the atoll. It's understandable why the adult turtles do not stay at Rose Atoll after nesting, because their favorite food (seagrass) is absent there. www.nps.gov /npsa/book/18_turtle.htm   (885 words)

Witnessing the birth of an undersea mountain… and other exciting discoveries! (02/20/06) Rose Atoll is a pristine reef that will hopefully be nominated as a world heritage site, a UNESCO driven process that links the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural properties. It appears the atoll may not require additional cleanup efforts offshore and that these efforts can be redirected to monitoring the lagoon and marine facing reefs. However, at Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll there was a considerable dearth of the much anticipated Gold corals, highlighting the variable patchiness of coral ecosystems. www.nurp.noaa.gov /Spotlight/UnderseaMtn.htm   (1881 words)

Welcome to University of Hawaii at Manoa Botany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Human alteration of the forest system at Palmyra Atoll began with the introduction of Coconuts by Polynesian voyagers, and accelerated during and after WWII with introductions of plants, terrestrial arthropods, and rats (Rattus rattus). Prior to the arrival of rats, Palmyra's flora evolved with the foraging pressures of at least five native land crabs, including the world’s largest terrestrial arthropod, the coconut crab (Birgus latro). Seabirds of Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge: 1975 – 2005. www.botany.hawaii.edu /gradstudentpages/Alex_Wegmann.htm   (669 words)

NOAA News Online (Story 2487) On one leg of the mission, researchers assessed living marine resources in waters of U.S. territories near Palmyra Atoll, Kingman Reef, Rose Atoll, Jarvis Island and American Samoa. Both Jarvis and Rose Atoll had greater numbers of deep-water organisms, but still not as many as expected. The multi-part expedition was jointly funded by the NOAA Undersea Research Program, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, New Zealand's Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, and the University of Kiel in Germany. www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories2005/s2487.htm   (1368 words)

EVS-Islands Tides—Currents.—Tidal currents off Rose Atoll are reported to set NE and SW, with the SW or ebb current being the stronger. Regulations.—Rose Atoll is a National Wildlife Refuge managed by the Department of Interior. There is a site that is made up of Rose Atoll Photographs. evs-islands.blogspot.com   (3384 words)

Honolulu Star-Bulletin Business Profit rose to 14.71 billion yuan ($433 million) from a revised 13.06 billion yuan, the Beijing-based company said. Indonesia's tourist arrivals rose 16 percent in the month of July to the highest since Oct. 1998, the Central Bureau of Statistics said. Arrivals through the country's 13 main airports and seaports in July rose to 424,774 tourists, with arrivals to Bali and Riau provinces accounting for two-thirds of the total. starbulletin.com /2004/09/02/business/bizbriefs.html   (1332 words)

The Honolulu Advertiser | Local News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) The mission is to map coral reefs and study the islands, atolls and shoals that run the 1,300 miles from Kaua Maragos said he has seen the same kind of weed growth at the site of other shipwrecks of steel ships, and believes the weed may move in when there is damage and nutrients from the ships’ iron hulls. At Kure Atoll, pieces of the rusting wreck of the fishing boat Paradise Queen II, which was driven ashore two years ago, remain on the reef. the.honoluluadvertiser.com /2000/Oct/19/1019localnews14.html   (1003 words)

Samoa MARINE & WILDLIFE TOPICS The total land area is 76.1 square miles and includes five volcanic islands (Tutuila, Aunu'u, Ofu, Olosega, Ta'u) and two remote atolls (Rose, Swains). The current population (60,000 in 2002) is growing rapidly at 2.1% per year. All fishing is prohibited at Rose Atoll, but traditional subsistence fishing is permitted at the other sites. www.nps.gov /npsa/book/04_local.htm   (602 words)

History Detail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Summary: The United States Coast Guard (USCG) Marine Safety Office (MSO) Honolulu was notified by the MSD office in America Samoa that the fishing vessel Jin Shiang Fa ran aground on Rose Island, approximately 150 miles east of America Samoa sometime after midnight on October 14. The Jin Shiang Fa, a 137-foot, Taiwanese flagged fishing vessel, was carrying 10,000 gallons of diesel in its internal fuel tanks, as well as an additional 100,000 gallons (2,390 barrels) of diesel in its forward cargo holds when it went aground. A Coast Guard overflight reported the vessel hard aground on the west side of Rose Island, south of the narrow opening into the inner lagoon. spills.incidentnews.gov /incidentnews/FMPro?-db=history&-format=history_detail.htm&-lay=history&RecID=35487&-find   (1067 words)

NRDC: OnEarth Magazine, Summer 2005 - Empty Nest Syndrome Jack Jeffrey stands on a ridge, his gray hair lofting in the breeze, looking down into the changing forest of Hakalau. He's telling a story about Rose Atoll, a pair of small islands in American Samoa that make up the southernmost of the U.S. national wildlife refuges. "Rose Atoll had pisonia forest, like a lot of Pacific islands do, and the trees had grown real big, but there was no understory at all. www.nrdc.org /onearth/05sum/hawaii5.asp   (421 words)

Rose Atoll Photographs, Phillip Colla Natural History Photography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Rose Atoll Photographs, Phillip Colla Natural History Photography by Phillip Colla and Harrison "Skip" Stubbs, Ph.D. In August 1995 a thirteen-member inter-agency scientific team visited Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge to assess injury caused by the 1993 grounding of a Taiwanese fishing vessel. Rose Atoll's beauty lies not only in its geometry but in the vibrant pink hue of its reefs it is one of the few atolls whose primary element of construction is the pink calcareous coralline alga Porolithon... www.oceanlight.com /html/rose_atoll.html   (291 words)

Cruise Plan Questions to be addressed by the samples and survey include: (i) how old is the volcano and how thick is its coral cap (ii) how is its origin and petrology related to the hotspot and/or propagating tear origin of the Samoan Islands and (iii) when and why did its coral cap die. There are several other similarly shallow drowned atolls clustered west of Samoa (in the "Melanesian Border Plateau" region), and one still emergent example (Rose Atoll) at the eastern end of the chain. Alexa Bank, a drowned atoll on the Melanesian border plateau. sio.ucsd.edu /supp_groups/shipsked/1996/allships96/96MV/Transit/TransitCruise.html   (1214 words)

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