French Frigate Shoals Update
Friday, 28th April 2006 by Alex Turnbull
A year ago today we posted about a Giant Alien Dolphin in the Pacific Ocean. It turned out that this was actually a group of islands known as French Frigate Shoals, which has since received a small image update on Google Maps. Although there's still not very high-res imagery, you can now more clearly see the islands, and they no longer look like a giant alien dolphin.
Now they look like an embryonic earth-dwelling dolphin 😀
The islands consist of a 20-mile long crescent-shaped reef with twelve sandbars, and other than the numerous plant, bird and marine life, they're currently inhabited by a total of 2 biologists.
More on French Frigate Shoals at Wikipedia.
P.S. You can always see what we posted a year ago by using the "one year ago today..." feature in the sidebar.
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I guess this is the airstrip.
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I wonder if those two biologists are husband and wife. What do they eat? Do they have to bag up all their poo-poo, like Antarctic explorers?