Isolated for months in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, this crew must now come to terms with a world changed by coronavirus

Just as the coronavirus pandemic began to take hold in February, four people set sail for one of the most remote places on Earth — a small camp on Kure Atoll, at the edge of the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

There, more than 2,250 kilometres from Honolulu, they lived in isolation for eight months while working to restore the island’s environment.

Cut off from the rest of the planet, their world was limited to a tiny…