The team conducted an inventory of natural resources of the island for the Department of Interior, Office of Insular Affairs. Preliminary results of the inventories have increased the number of terrestrial species known to the island from 150 to more than 650. On the last day of the first trip, the group found a single living specimen of the palm tree Pseudopheonix sargentti saonae var. Further exploration during the second trip proved the specimen to be the last living example of this endemic palm, which had been common on the island as late as 1928. The information collected during the expeditions was used in the decision to make Navassa a Fish and Wildlife Preserve.
North is to the left.
The Research Vessel Quest is visible at lower right.