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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
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.
Statistically, Baker Island is grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands and, along with Howland Island, is among the last places on Earth to experience the New Year, operating in the UTC−12:00 time zone. It is one of the most remote U.S. possessions in the equatorial Pacific. [5]
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 ...
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Howland and Baker Islands: 434,921 167,924 Including Howland Island and Baker Island, both territories are National Wildlife Refuges in the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands. Wake Island: 407,241 157,237 A National Wildlife Refuge in the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands. American Samoa: 404,391 156,136
Cook Islands and Tokelau borders defined by three treaties in 1980, 1980, and 1997, respectively; others UNCLOS [1] Baker Island and Howland Island, Johnston Atoll and Kingman Reef, and Jarvis Island (USMOI) Kiribati (three discontinuous extents) EEZ, Pacific Ocean: Defined by 2019 treaty. [1] Wake Island (disputed USMOI)