Learn more about ocean life in Sea of Hope: America’s Underwater Treasures, premiering Sunday, January 15th at 7/6c on National Geographic. MIDWAY ISLANDS — Late last summer, President Barack ...

This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The sun shimmered on Midway Islands, a remote speck of reef halfway between California and China.

About midway through the trip ... or overcrowded beaches filled with German tourists wearing Speedos. The National Geographic Lindblad cruise gave me a taste of real Iceland, much like I saw ...