Midway Island

Midway Island, also known as Midway Atoll (Hawaiian: Pihemanu Kauihelani), is a 6.2 square kilometre island located in the North Pacific Ocean. Midway, as its name suggests, lies nearly halfway between north America and Asia. It also lies almost halfway around the earth from Greenwich, England. The island consists of a ring-shaped barrier reef and several sand islets.

The two significant pieces of land, Sand Island and Eastern Island, at one time provided habitat for millions of seabirds. However, since the construction of the Yeager Space Center, these species have mostly disappeared.