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Roll 12:6 Looking S. from the N.W. point along W. beach; showing the palm,
the kou and Tournefortia and in the distance the Obs. point
coconuts and masts of the "France."
Roll 13:1 Looking E.S.E. from the N.W. point across the belt of coral rock,
zone of vegetation and across N. arm of the lagoon.
Proceeded E. and E.S.E. along N. shore. The barrier of broken coral
changes to sand dune, covered with beach runner and stunted bunch grass, with
plants of boerhaavia, sida, etc. Past a pile or mast, the butt of which was
sheathed for about 14 feet in sheet copper, lying on S. side of ridge. The
beach is steep sandy, with a broad reef, (175 to 250 yards wide). The island
rim is here 1/4 to 3/8 miles wide: made up of the beach, dune ridge, strip of
broken coral and then the belt of vegetation to the lagoon beach. There are
occasional large logs and tree trunks on the beach ridge.
Roll 13:2 The N. beach looking E.S.E. at the point where the sand dune
changes back into broken coral, with scattered drift longs in
fragments.
Some of the drift logs contain termites, the usual small black weevils
(of the N. islands), silverfish, sowbugs, a small cricket, and the common gray
and yellow mites. Ant nest under log contained winged females, medium sized
red and fuscous and tiny fuscous workers.
Profile of Island Rim (N. side). Width 300 to 400 yards.
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Ocean Reef.
Beach, Barrier
- Alternately
Sand and Coral lumps.
Vegetation Zone.
Sand flat. Lagoon
Zig-zagged north rim as far east as two patches of Tournefortia trees,
one of which also had a kou tree. Ocean beach lined with drift logs, some
of considerable size. The sand dunes contain numbers of turtle "holes", in-
dicating that turtles are very abundant at times. The beach barrier is
alternately sand dune and coral lumps. In one place there is an underlying