But anyone who wants to summon Midway’s wartime past, or try to imagine how exposed the island’s defenders must have felt 59 years ago, should probably start here. In June 1942, Eastern ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN ... according to Brown. The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments of plastic. The birds die and decay, but the plastic inside them stays ...

Midway is one of the most remote coral atolls ... The waves washed over 60% of Eastern Island, an islet of nearly 150 hectares inside the refuge. Residents at the atoll had four hours' warning ...