Kiwa hirsuta mention

'New continent' and species discovered in Atlantic study
Mongabay.com - Aug 18, 2007
... included a gigantic 1-centimeter in diameter single-celled organism in the Nazare Canyon off Portugal, a "blonde-haired" lobster near Easter Island, ...

Clear waters near Rapa Nui

Solar UV radiation studied in the Pacific
Monsters and Critics
Jul 2, 2007, 13:15 GMT

They found that in the extremely nutrient-poor waters of the South Pacific near Easter Island, ultraviolet radiation penetrates up to 328 feet into the ocean. Those measurements are the highest ever reported for oceanic waters and are equal to those measured in the clearest freshwaters.

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Clearest point in SE Pacific near Rapa Nui

Clear waters run deep in the Pacific
New Scientist (subscription), UK - Jun 29, 07
At the clearest point of the south-east Pacific, near to Easter Island, Tedetti found that UV rays could penetrate more than 100 metres below the surface. ...

Found: The clearest ocean waters on Earth
New Scientist (subscription), UK - Jun 28, 07
At the clearest point of the south-east Pacific, near to Easter Island, Tedetti found that UV rays could penetrate more than 100 metres below the surface. ...

Middle of the Pacific contains clearest ocean waters on Earth
South Asian Women's Forum, India - Jun 30, 2007
They left from Tahiti in French Polynesia, passed by Easter Island and ended on the Chilean coast. Along the way, they sampled the water's chemistry, ...

Photo of large coral colony near Rapanui

Ancient Coral Reef Tells The History Of Kenya's Soil Erosion
Source: Stanford University
Photo Credit: Rob Dunbar, Stanford University
April 13, 2007










In 2005, Professor Rob Dunbar and his colleagues collected core samples from a large coral colony near Easter Island. That colony is about the same size as the coral reef that was the focus of Dunbar's Kenya study.

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Ancient Malindi coral reef tells story of soil erosion in Kenya
Stanford Report - Apr 11, 2007
In 2005, Professor Rob Dunbar and his colleagues collected core samples from a large coral colony near Easter Island. That colony is about the same size as ...

Hagfish caught off the coast of Rapanui

Hag-ling over deep water fishes
KAREN RAVN
Monterey County Herald
Posted on Tue, Feb. 27, 2007

But in fact they were two grown-ups riffing during a scientific expedition to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean -- about 900 miles south of Easter Island and nearly a mile and a half down -- where no humans had gone before.

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First time capture of hagfish off coast of Rapanui

Slurp gun used to capture hermaphrodite from hydrothermal vent
mongabay.com
February 15, 2007

Researchers used an "Alvin Slurp Gun" to capture a hagfish from a deep sea hydrothermal vent. It is the first time that a member of the jawless fishes (agnathans) has been captured from a hydrothermal vent site ... at a depth of 2211 meters during the Easter Microplate expedition, 12 March–6 April 2005 to the East Pacific Rise, a region of sea floor spreading under the eastern Pacific Ocean (37 degrees South, 110 degrees West, several hundred miles from Easter Island).

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Turtles from Central American found off Rapanui

Scientists to microchip fish to track movements
By David Ljunggren
Scientific American
February 12, 2007

Until recently, scientists had little idea how far fish can swim. Tuna crisscross the Pacific, great white sharks travel from Africa to Australia and turtles from Central America have been found off Easter Island.

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