 Howland Island Howland Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean at 0°48′N 176°38′W, about 3,100 km (1,675 nautical miles) southwest of Honolulu. It is about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia and is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States, part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands. Howland Island Source PCL map collection, US Pacific Territory Original image http://www. ...
Fanning Atoll (Tabuaeran) is a typical, small to moderate-sized atoll located in the central Pacific Ocean. ...
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Honolulu as seen from the International Space Station Honolulu is the largest city and the capital of the U.S. state of Hawai‘i. ...
Official language(s) Hawaiian and English Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 43rd 28,337 km² n/a km 2,450 km 41. ...
An incorporated territory of the United States is a specific area under the jurisdiction of the United States, over which the United States Congress has determined that the United States Constitution is to be applied in its entirety, in the same manner as it applies to the individual U.S...
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The United States Minor Outlying Islands, defined by ISO 3166-1, consists of the following list of islands: Baker Island Howland Island Jarvis Island Johnston Atoll Kingman Reef Midway Atoll Navassa Island Palmyra Atoll Wake Island All of these islands are in the Pacific Ocean except Navassa Island, which is...
Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge consists of the 455 acre (1.84 km²) island and the surrounding 32,074 acres (129.80 km²) of submerged land. The island is now a National Wildlife Refuge managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an insular area under the U.S. Department of the Interior. National Wildlife Refuge is a designation for certain protected areas of the United States managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. ...
The USFWS logo The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior that is dedicated to managing and preserving wildlife. ...
An insular area is United States territory that is neither a part of one of the fifty states nor a part of the District of Columbia, the nations federal district. ...
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The island has no economic activity and is perhaps best known as the island Amelia Earhart never reached. Defense is the responsibility of the United States and the island is visited annually by the U.S. Coast Guard. Amelia Earhart Amelia Mary Earhart (24 July 1897 – missing from 2 July 1937), daughter of Edwin and Amy Earhart, was an American aviator and noted early female pilot who mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigational flight in 1937. ...
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History
Sparse remnants of trails and other artifacts indicate a sporadic early Polynesian presence but Howland Island was uninhabited when the United States took possession of it in 1857 through claims under the Guano Islands Act of 1856. Its guano deposits were mined by American and British companies during the second half of the 19th century. In 1935, a short-lived attempt at colonization was begun with a rotating population of four young civilians from Hawaii in the settlement Itascatown (a cluster of no more than two or three small structures named after the U.S. Coast Guard vessel that brought them and made regular visits during that era). Similar projects were started on nearby Baker Island and on Jarvis Island, but these were disrupted by World War II and abandoned. Polynesians settled the vast Polynesian triangle by 700AD Polynesian culture refers to the aboriginal culture of the Polynesian-speaking peoples of Polynesia and the Polynesian outliers. ...
1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
The Guano Islands Act was federal legislation passed by the U.S. Congress on August 18, 1856 enabling citizens of the U.S. to take possession of islands containing guano deposits. ...
1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
The Chincha guano islands in Peru. ...
Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths {{{notes}}} World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945. ...
Howland Island was a refueling stop for American pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan on their round-the-world flight in 1937. They took off for the island from Lae, New Guinea, but were never seen again. Amelia Earhart Amelia Mary Earhart (24 July 1897 – missing from 2 July 1937), daughter of Edwin and Amy Earhart, was an American aviator and noted early female pilot who mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigational flight in 1937. ...
Frederick Joseph Noonan was born on April 4, 1893 in Cook County (Chicago), Illinois to Joseph T Noonan and Catherine Egan. ...
Amelia Earhart Amelia Mary Earhart (24 July 1897 – missing from 2 July 1937), daughter of Edwin and Amy Earhart, was an American aviator and noted early female pilot who mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigational flight in 1937. ...
1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Lae is a city on the north coast of Papua New Guinea with a population of approx 100,000. ...
A Japanese air attack killed two of the colonists at the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War II and the two survivors were evacuated in early 1942. The island was then occupied by the U.S. military but abandoned after the war. Public entry to the island is by special-use permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service only and is generally restricted to scientists and educators. Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths {{{notes}}} World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945. ...
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The armed forces of the United States of America consist of the United States Army United States Navy United States Air Force United States Marine Corps United States Coast Guard Note: The United States Coast Guard has both military and law enforcement functions. ...
See also: History of the Pacific Islands History of islands in the Pacific Ocean. ...
Geography Located in the North Pacific Ocean at (0°48′N 176°38′W), the island is tiny at just 1.84 km² (455 acres) and 6.4 km of coastline. The island has an elongated shape on a north-south axis. The climate is equatorial, with little rainfall and a burning sun. Temperatures are moderated somewhat by a constant wind from the east. The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area. The highest point is three meters above sea level. Howland Island, Pacific Ocean image description here larger version here File links The following pages link to this file: Howland Island Categories: NASA images ...
Howland Island, Pacific Ocean image description here larger version here File links The following pages link to this file: Howland Island Categories: NASA images ...
A reef surrounding an islet. ...
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There are no natural fresh water resources. The landscape features scattered grasses along with prostrate vines and low-growing shrubs. For many years descriptions of the island mentioned a small group of trees at its center but a visitor accompanying a scientific expedition in 2000 reported seeing "a flat bulldozed plain of coral sand, without a single tree" and some traces of building ruins. Howland is primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine wildlife. The U.S. claims an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles (370 km) and a territorial sea of 12 nautical miles (22 km). For the village on the Isle of Wight, see Freshwater, Isle of Wight. ...
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In international maritime law, an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is a seazone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources. ...
Territorial waters, or a territorial sea, is a belt of coastal waters extending 12 twelve nautical miles from the shore of a littoral state that is regarded as the sovereign territory of the state, except that foreign ships (both military and civilian) are allowed innocent passage through it. ...
The island's time zone is UTC -12 Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ...
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Transportation There are no harbors or docks. The reefs may pose a hazard. There is one boat landing area along the middle of the sandy beach on the west coast. An airstrip was constructed in 1937 for a scheduled refuelling stop for Amelia Earhart's ill-fated flight. Later named Kamakaiwi Field after one of the colonists who died as a result of the first Japanese attack, the facility was seldom if ever used, suffered repeated damage during World War II and has all but disappeared. 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Amelia Earhart Amelia Mary Earhart (24 July 1897 – missing from 2 July 1937), daughter of Edwin and Amy Earhart, was an American aviator and noted early female pilot who mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigational flight in 1937. ...
Earhart Light is a striped day beacon (or navigational landmark) near the boat landing at the middle of the west coast. It was partially destroyed during World War II by a Japanese air attack, but was later rebuilt and named in Earhart's memory. By 2000 the Earhart beacon was said to be crumbling and hadn't been painted in decades.
Alternate History Howland and neighboring Baker and Jarvis Islands were the subject of an Internet-based alternate history hoax developed by Stephen Abbott, a political consultant and apparently prolific author in this genre. Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean at 0°13′ N 176°31′ W, about 3,100 km (1,675 nautical miles) southwest of Honolulu. ...
The flag of the US is used on Jarvis Island Map of Jarvis Island Jarvis Island is an uninhabited 4. ...
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Abbott's fictional Official Government Website of the Republic of Howland Baker and Jarvis , which was not functioning in February 2006, described (mostly without photography) a populated, thriving tourist destination on Howland and Baker Islands, including a faked CIA World Factbook entry, elaborate information on travel and tourism as well as imaginary air and sea travel information. Abbott gave this fiction its greatest depth with an alternate history and government, complete with a constitution and supplemented by simulated local news coverage.
Although an early version of the website contained a diminutively linked, vaguely titled (Too good to be true? Click here and find out) explanation and disclaimer, by September 2005 this link had been displayed much more prominently on the main page.
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