Kingman Reef?

[Eddie Clamp]

Kingman Reef, part of a chain of Pacific atolls and islands (called the Line Islands) that straddles the Equator 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. Places like Kingman, remote and near pristine, preserve a record of the world when the human footprint was light. They provide a reference point against which to measure change and a blueprint for conservation. But they are a scarce resource. "Worldwide, there are maybe 50 reefs in this sort of condition,". chosen as the Line Islands provide a gradient of human impact—from uninhabited, unmodified Kingman Reef at one end to ecologically degraded Kiritimati (Christmas Island), with a population of more than 5,000, at the other.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/07/kingman-reef/warne-text.html

Anyone been there? :)

[ChristianG]

Anyone been there?
That'd be quite an expedition - BYO absolutely everything. :D

Just a tad expensive for my tastes I'd say. ;)

[Eddie Clamp]

That'd be quite an expedition - BYO absolutely everything. :D
Just a tad expensive for my tastes I'd say. ;)

Agreed! But doesn't it just fire your imagination? Does mine. :)

[zachfitzner]

Eddie: It definitely fires my imagination! Part of the reason Kingman reef would be so amazing is BECAUSE you'd have to bring all of your own everything. It looks pricey though. I've been e-mailing around trying to find a volunteer/internship (or other) position on Palmyra Atoll which is near and also in the line islands, I have a background in biology and little money. I'd try to get there anyway I could!