august 21, 1954 (cont.)
—
Lowman:
"At Boro Island 2 fairy terns, 1 brown bobby, and
2 ruddy turnstones.
wounded a
Terns were negating on the island.
Shot and
frigate bird that flew out to sea and could not be
retrieved."
Bonham:
"The northwest reef flat where most of the collect-
ing occurred is partly oceanic and partly inter-islet
in location.
There seems to have been smothering because of siltation,
judging
from the dead centers of most of the coral heads, but most showed
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new growth peripherally.
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Organisms collected were a 42-cm. Tridacna gigas (possibly
the only one at the islet), Grapsus
mon under Messerschmidia trees),
blue coral,
3 small H.
encrusting coral,
leucospilata,
(abundant), Coenobita
spotted crab,
sponges,
(com-
staghorn coral,
a single Holothuria atra,
3 Tridacna crocea and 1 Hinpopus.”
The rubble-strewn pass and lagoon shores had Grapsus, but
no other invertebrates could be seen on the narrow inshore reef
flat.
The Ran-Annim (Aloha)
raised the anchor at 1:00 P.M. and
started east along the chain of small
southern reef.
islets that make up the
On our starboard bow we passed Boka,
Oruk and
Aran; each had low,
shrub type of vegetation and appeared through
the glasses much as
I remembered them from previous years.
Chieerete
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