Wake Island suffered severe wind damage when Super Typhoon Ioke passed over the island a week ago, and may have lost an entire season's reproduction of 11 seabird species. But a Coast Guard team delivered to the island by boat has found that there were no spills from island tanks that hold some 3 million gallons of aircraft fuel, oil and other compounds.

"Members of the Coast Guard Pacific Strike Team have concluded the ground assessment of fuel storage tanks and other facilities on Wake Island and have found all tanks to be intact and determined no pollution affected the island as a result of Super Typhoon Ioke," the Coast Guard said in a news release.

The team that went on the island reported no injured or dead wildlife, but the Coast Guard provided no information about any wildlife found alive. Ponded water visible in photos taken two days after the storm's passage suggest either heavy rain or inundation by storm-driven seawater.

Ioke hit during the breeding season for tens of thousands of seabirds on Wake. Wind speeds approaching 200 mph, and storm surges that may have swept across the entire island, would likely have killed off the entire stock of eggs and chicks, said John Klavitter, wildlife biologist at the Fish and Wildlife Service's Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.

"I think the eggs and chicks would have been lost. Adults would have been blown away. There could be some mortality, but most could have survived. But this year's reproduction would have totally failed from something like this," Klavitter said.

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