. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 71. Figure 19. Our camp site above Adams Bay, Nihoa Island. June 12, 1923. [Arrows indicate tents.] Nihoa Island is about 3/4 mile long by roughly 1/4 mile wide. Adams Bay, the only break in the great precipices that form its side lies at the center of the island and opens to the south and southeast. The bay consists of three bights. Our landing was made at the inner point on the easterly side of the middle one and our camp is located at the northeast corner of this same bight. The hill slopes rise steeply inl
. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 71. Figure 19. Our camp site above Adams Bay, Nihoa Island. June 12, 1923. [Arrows indicate tents.] Nihoa Island is about 3/4 mile long by roughly 1/4 mile wide. Adams Bay, the only break in the great precipices that form its side lies at the center of the island and opens to the south and southeast. The bay consists of three bights. Our landing was made at the inner point on the easterly side of the middle one and our camp is located at the northeast corner of this same bight. The hill slopes rise steeply inland from the bay but climbing though arduous is not particularly difficult. Three main valleys divided by high sharp ridges drain into the three bights and small secondary valleys in addition may be traced in the two eastern sections. The rock of the island is entirely volcanic with the dikes examined previously in the western face exposed in many places. The steep slopes have considerable soil though it is shallow and contains many rocks. Vegetation is abundant. A woody-stemmed shrub, a goose-foot with leaves and inflorescences of a Chenopodium, is most abundant and covers great areas. It grows from one to three feet high in the arroyo reaching 4-5 feet in sheltered corners. What looks like a Euphorbia is found on the higher slopes and bunch grass occurs on the sides of some of the steep ridges. There is a small amount of a woody-stemmed legume, a small lily2, a pigweed and other plants. In the eastern and western valleys are small groves of the Nihoa Palm ^-Lilies are an extremely minor component of the flora of the main Hawaiian islands and no lily has ever been reported from Nihoa or any of the other islands of the northwestern chain. Perhaps Wetmore was seeing sprouting seeds of the Pritchardia Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations
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