Counting Laysan Albatross Nests on Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
Two counting teams worked together in the former Naval Air Station parade field on Sand Island. Photo by Lowe, Roy, US Fish and Wildlife Service. More information about coutners is available at http://images.fws.gov/, image ID WOE196.
Torishima (s Izu) and Muko-jima (Ogasawara=Bonin Is.; s of Japan), Northwestern Hawaiian Is. (most of population) and Guadelupe and Revillagigedo is. (w of n, c Mexico)
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)