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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.
Key points:
- Two field teams head to the Kure Atoll each year, one for summer and one for winter
- Their primary job while there is removing invasive plants and replacing them with native ones, as well as cleaning up debris
- Working on the atoll means getting information about the world slowly, and often not at all
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…
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