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Necker Island (, 13 km (8 miles) north of the Tropic Of Cancer , located at . It is part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands , located 690 km (430 miles) northwest of Honolulu , and is now part of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge . Necker Island is between 41 to 45 acres (170,000 to 180,000 m²) and is rocky with steep sides and very little soil. Its highest elevation is 84 m (277 ft). Few signs of long-term human habitation have been found. However, the island contains 33 stone Shrine s and stone artifacts much like those found in the main Hawaiian Islands . Because of this, many Anthropologists believe that the island was a ceremonial and religious site. Visits to the island are said to have started a few hundred years after the main Hawaiian Islands were inhabited, and ended a few hundred years before European contact. French explorer Jean-François De La Pérouse was the first European to visit the island, in 1786 . The island is named after Jacques Necker . Because of the island's usage by Native Hawaiians as a ceremonial and religious site in Ancient Hawaii , the island was added to the National Register Of Historic Places in 1988 . SOURCES
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