R.D. Kirkpatrick 1965 Journal Howland Island, mid-Pacific Feb. 1 8 AM. We sighted the island on schedule Mon after sailing steadily SW day and night from Honolulu for 7 days. We went to shore with our gear in two trips of the rubber raft. Navy Chief Boatswains Mate Jim Ingold and an Alaskan Indian coxswain took us in. We set up 2 tents and a canvas shade at the landing on the west beach near the Amelia Earhart Lighthouse (this is the island she was heading for when she disappeared in the 30's). Howland Island is approx. 1mi N to S and 1/2 mi E to W with a max elev. of 24 feet. It is coral with herbaceous vegetation (Tribulus, Boerhavia, Lepturus, Digitaria, Portulaca being the major plants). A few WWII shell holes dot the island and a wrecked WWII PBY is on the beach near our camp. Early PM We walked completely around the island counting nesting boobies and banding young boobies. A colony of nesting Sooty Terns is between camp and the lighthouse; another nesting colony is at the SE end of the island.