Laysan is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, located 808 nautical miles northwest of Honolulu. It has one land mass of 1,016 acres, about 1 by 1+1⁄2 miles in size. It is an atoll of sorts, although the land completely surrounds Laysen Lake some 2.4 m above sea level that has a salinity approximately three times greater than the ocean. Laysan's Hawaiia…Laysan is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, located 808 nautical miles northwest of Honolulu. It has one land mass of 1,016 acres, about 1 by 1+1⁄2 miles in size. It is an atoll of sorts, although the land completely surrounds Laysen Lake some 2.4 m above sea level that has a salinity approximately three times greater than the ocean. Laysan's Hawaiian name, Kauō, means 'egg'.
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