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Travellers considering a holiday in America may soon have a new destination to visit during their trip.

The tiny Hawaiian island of Midway Atoll, which lies almost exactly halfway between Asia and North America in the Pacific Ocean, looks set to open for business.

Plans are being put in place by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to establish a visitor schedule from as early as mid-2007.

Currently, tours to Midway Atoll are few and far between, with many visitors having to spend around three months on the island taking part in voluntary environmental work.

With the introduction of a visitor schedule, the island would see visitor numbers grow.

'We would very much like to welcome visitors back on a more regular basis [to] share all of the wildlife and the historic features of not only Midway but certainly as a window to the marine national monument as well,' Barbara Maxfield from the FWS told the Associated Press.

Midway Atoll has many fantastic beaches and is a wildlife wonderland, with many thousands of birds and spinner dolphins making the region their home.

The island remains relatively untouched, but it has a long and important history. During World War II the island was the scene of the famous Battle of Midway, which eventually turned the tide of the war in the Pacific.

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