Laysan Island
Laysan is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, located 808 nautical miles northwest of Honolulu. It has one land mass of 1,016 acres, about 1 by 1+1⁄2 miles in size.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: atoll of Hawaii
- Also known as: “Bunkers”, “Kauo”, “Laysan”, “Laysen”, “Layson”, “Moller”, and “Moller Island”
Laysan Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Xhosa—“Laysan Island” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Laysan”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Лайсан”
- Belarusian: “Лайсан”
- Bulgarian: “Лайсан”
- Catalan: “Laysan”
- Cebuano: “Laysan Island”
- Chinese: “莱桑岛”
- Chinese: “雷仙岛”
- Chinese: “雷仙島”
- Czech: “Laysan”
- Dutch: “Laysan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لايسان”
- Esperanto: “Lajsano”
- French: “Laysan”
- Galician: “Laysan”
- German: “Kauo”
- German: “Kauō”
- German: “Laysan-Insel”
- German: “Laysan”
- German: “Laysaninsel”
- Hawaiian: “Kauō”
- Hebrew: “לאייסאן”
- Hungarian: “Laysan”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Laysan”
- Italian: “Laysan”
- Japanese: “レイサン島”
- Korean: “라이산”
- Korean: “라이산섬”
- Lithuanian: “Laisanas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Laysan”
- Polish: “Laysan”
- Portuguese: “Laysan”
- Russian: “Лайсан”
- Spanish: “Laysan”
- Ukrainian: “Лайсан”
- Vietnamese: “Laysan”
- Xhosa: “Laysan”
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