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Baker Island, once known as New Nantucket in the early 19th century, [1] is a small, uninhabited atoll located just north of the Equator in the central Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,920 miles (3,090 kilometres) southwest of Honolulu.
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 when they disappeared. The islands are the only land masses in the world associated with UTC−12:00, which is the last area on Earth for deadlines with a date to ...
Baker Island is an island located in Maine, United States. It marks the southwestern entrance to Frenchman Bay , about four miles (2.5 km) south of Mt. Desert Island . It is one of the five islands in the town of Cranberry Isles .
The approximately 55-acre (220,000 m 2) island was known as Bakers Island as early as the 1630s. Originally owned by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it was granted to the town of Salem in 1660. John Turner was the first private owner of the island. The island once housed a hotel, but it burned down in 1906. [1]
Baker Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, United States.It lies off the central west coast of Prince of Wales Island.Its closest significant island neighbors are Noyes Island to its northwest, Lulu Island directly to its north, and Suemez Island across Bucareli Bay to its southeast.
Baker Island Light is a lighthouse on Baker Island, Maine, which is part of Acadia National Park. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The light station was established in 1828 as a guide to the southern entrance to Frenchman Bay .
Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean. Baker Island may also refer to: Baker Island (Alaska), an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, US; Baker Island (British Columbia), an island in the Broughton Archipelago, Canada
Baker Island is a 66.9-acre (271,000 m 2) alluvial island in the upper Allegheny River. It is located in Tionesta Township and Harmony Township in Forest County, Pennsylvania, and is part of the Allegheny Islands Wilderness in Allegheny National Forest. Most of the trees on Baker Island were destroyed by a 1985 tornado.