Nearby Howland Island has only 0.73 square miles of land, yet Bishop Museum archaeologist Kenneth Emory recorded numerous Polynesian structures there in 1924. The ambitious Polynesians eked out an living on these ecologically extreme islands for a short time. But over the long run they were simply too small and too dry for people to survive. How and why they were settled in the first place is perhaps the real mystery, one which archaeology is helping to answer. All rights reserved.
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