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Map of Howland Island Orthographic projection centered over Howland Island Map of the central Pacific Ocean showing Howland Island and nearby Baker Island just north of the Equator and east of Tarawa. The U.S. claims an Exclusive Economic Zone of 200 nautical miles (370 km) and a territorial sea of 12 nautical miles (22 km) around the island.
The Howland-Baker exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a 400 nautical-mile diameter area protected by the U.S. Coast Guard. [5] The Howland-Baker EEZ has 425,700 km 2; [6] by comparison, California has 423,970 km 2. Howland Island was the area that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were trying to reach in 1937
Hospital Island; Howland Island (Montezuma WMA) Huckleberry Island; Ingraham Hassock Island; Indian Island (Bay Shore West) Indian Island (Mattituck) Iona Island;
Brown boobies atop pier posts at Johnston Atoll, September 2005. The United States Minor Outlying Islands is a statistical designation applying to the minor outlying islands and groups of islands that comprise eight United States insular areas in the Pacific Ocean (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island) and one ...
The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.
Erie Canal in Montezuma: Howland Island Road NY 38 in Mentz: CR 139A: 1.20 1.93 CR 58A / CR 58B in Mentz: High Bridge Road CR 139 in Mentz: CR 140: 1.38 2.22 NY 31: Trumble and Thompson roads in Mentz: CR 58A Discontinuous at New York State Thruway: CR 141A: 2.17 3.49 US 20 / NY 5: Laraway Road in Aurelius: CR 141B at Montezuma town line CR ...
The 16-person journey mounted in September 2023 from Tarawa, Kirbati, a port near Howland Island, and the team’s unmanned submersible scanned 5,200 square miles of ocean floor.
Montezuma Island is an island in Suisun Bay, ... It is labeled "Burnett Island" on an 1850 survey map of the San Francisco Bay area made by Cadwalader Ringgold, ...