van Riper, Charles III; van Riper, Sandra G; Goff, M Lee; Laird, Marshall
(Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Botany, 1982-11)
The Hawaiian Islands are the most isolated land mass in the world, lying in the middle of the Pacific Ocean over 4,500 km from North America and 5,000 km from Asia. Because of their sterile volcanic origin and great distances ...