Although located to the west of Midway Atoll, Kure Atoll has a timezone +1 hour ahead at UTC−10:00 (the same as the rest of Hawaii). The International Date Line lies approximately 100 miles (87 nmi/160 km) to the west. It is currently managed as a Widllife Bird Sanctuary by the State of Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resource-Division of Forestry and Wildlife as one of the co-trustees of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument with support from Kure Atoll Conservancy. Green Island, in addition to being the nesting grounds of tens of thousands of seabirds, has recorded several vagrant terrestrial birds including snow bunting, eyebrowed thrush, brambling, olive-backed pipit, black kite, Steller's sea eagle and Chinese sparrowhawk. Politically, it is part of Hawaii, although separated from the rest of the state by Midway, which is a separate unorganized territory.
A short, unused and unmaintained runway and a portion of one building, both from a former United States Coast Guard LORAN station, are located on the island. The only land of significant size is called Green Island and is a habitat for hundreds of thousands of seabirds. Kure Atoll ( / ˈ k ʊər iː/ Hawaiian : Mokupāpapa) or Ocean Island is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean 48 nautical miles (89 km 55 mi) beyond Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at 28☂5′N 178☂0′W.
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