An Empty Runway 2000km From Anything? | Kure Atoll

A seemingly empty coral ring in the North Pacific, 2000 km from Honolulu. When you zoom in, you find an overgrown abandoned runway and a handful of building skeletons.

This video follows Kure Atoll from the beginning - who found it, the shipwrecks that kept finding it, and the outpost that finally explains the runway.

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0:00 A runway in the middle of nowhere
0:40 The Hawaiian chain's end
1:27 How old is this place?
2:05 Hawaiian mythology
3:34 The European discovery
6:46 Gledstanes
7:54 Parker
9:08 USS Saginaw
14:55 Dunnottar Castle
16:46 Before During and After World War 2
19:20 The big change: LORAN
22:49 Why they left
24:24 Conservancy

Links:
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