Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, to the north.

The American colonists arrived aboard the USCGC Itasca, the same vessel that brought colonists to neighboring Howland Island, on April 3, 1935.

: In the 2006 edition of The World Factbook, the entries for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and the Midway Islands were merged into a new United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges entry.

Howland Island seen from space

Orthographic projection ( cartography ) | Orthographic projection centered over Howland Island

Howland Island () is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about southwest of Honolulu.

Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge consists of the island and the surrounding of submerged land.

Map of Howland Island

Since Howland Island is uninhabited, no time zone is specified.

Map of the central Pacific Ocean showing Howland Island and nearby Baker Island just north of the Equator and east of Tarawa.

Emery, an ethnologist for Honolulu's Bernice P. Bishop Museum, indicated that settlers on Manra Island were apparently of two distinct groups, one Polynesian and the other Micronesian, hence the same might have been true on Howland Island, though no proof of this has been forthcoming.

Worth of the Nantucket whaler Oeno sighted Howland around 1822 and called it " Worth Island ".

Howland Island was uninhabited when the United States took possession of it in 1857 under the Guano Islands Act of 1856.

In keeping with its intended aviation role, Howland Island became a scheduled refueling stop for American pilot Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan on their round-the-world flight in 1937.

While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.

Pomacanthidae | Angelfish and hump coral-Howland Island NWR. On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

Howland Island was overflown in 1967 by Ann Dearing Holtgren Pellegreno and in 1997 by Linda Finch during memorial circumnavigation flights to commemorate Earhart's 1937 world flight.

File: Plane wreckage on Howland Island. jpg | Aircraft wreckage on Howland

The Howland Great Dock in Rotherhithe ( built 1696 and later forming the core of the Surrey Commercial Docks ) was designed to address these problems, providing a large, secure and sheltered anchorage with room for 120 large vessels.

The settlement was named Itascatown after the USCGC Itasca that brought the colonists to Howland and made regular cruises between the other Line Islands during that era.

The facility was named Kamakaiwi Field after James Kamakaiwi, a young Hawaiian who had arrived with the first group of four colonists, was subsequently picked as leader and spent a total of over three years on Howland, far longer than the average recruit.

Howland was occupied by a battalion of the United States Marine Corps in September 1943 and known as Howland Naval Air Station until May 1944.

Jarvis Island was reclaimed by the United States government and colonized from 26 March 1935 onwards, under the Baker, Howland and Jarvis Colonization Scheme ( see also Howland Island and Baker Island ).

" Tubman began attending meetings of suffragist organizations, and was soon working alongside women such as Susan B. Anthony and Emily Howland.

Their intended destination was Howland Island, a flat sliver of land 6, 500 ft ( 2, 000 m ) long and 1, 600 ft ( 500 m ) wide, 10 ft ( 3 m ) high and 2, 556 miles ( 4, 113 km ) away.

The United States Coast Guard cutter was on station at Howland, assigned to communicate with Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and guide them to the island once they arrived in the vicinity.

Through a series of misunderstandings or errors ( the details of which are still controversial ), the final approach to Howland Island using radio navigation was not successful.

During Earhart and Noonan's approach to Howland Island the Itasca received strong and clear voice transmissions from Earhart identifying as KHAQQ but she apparently was unable to hear voice transmissions from the ship.

When Earhart was at cruising altitude and midway between Lae and Howland ( over from each ) neither station heard her scheduled transmission at 0815 GCT.

After all contact was lost with Howland Island, attempts were made to reach the flyers with both voice and Morse code transmissions.

Other Navy search efforts were again directed north, west and southwest of Howland Island, based on a possibility the Electra had ditched in the ocean, was afloat, or that the aviators were in an emergency raft.

" Rear Admiral Richard R. Black, USN, who was in administrative charge of the Howland Island airstrip and was present in the radio room on the Itasca, asserted in 1982 that " the Electra went into the sea about 10 am, July 2, 1937 not far from Howland ".

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* Howland Island at Infoplease

Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, worked at the time with Raytheon.

" Susan Butler, author of the " definitive " Earhart biography East to the Dawn, says she thinks the aircraft went into the ocean out of sight of Howland Island and rests on the seafloor at a depth of.

They have suggested Earhart and Noonan may have flown without further radio transmissions for two and a half hours along the line of position Earhart noted in her last transmission received at Howland, arrived at then-uninhabited Gardner Island ( now Nikumaroro ) in the Phoenix group, landed on an extensive reef flat near the wreck of a large freighter ( the ) and ultimately perished.

She would then have tried to reach the airfield at Rabaul, New Britain ( northeast of mainland Papua New Guinea ), approximately from Howland.

It is located at 45. 290347 ,-68. 663177 ), between the towns of Argyle and Howland along Penobscot County Road 116 paralleling U. S. Route 2 ( with the Penobscot River in between them ).

The following year the National League of Cities bestowed its James C. Howland Award for community enrichment on New Brighton for its groundbreaking community policing partnership, which substantially reduced crime at the Polynesian Village apartment complex.

Born in Howland Street, Tottenham Court Road in Camden, London, the son of a police-magistrate, Ballantine was educated at St Paul's School, and called to the Bar in 1834.

One man ( Goodman ) quit after the first month, and another three ( Dunn and the Howland brothers ) left at Separation Canyon in the third.

Three high level officials — Bruce Laingen, Victor Tomseth and Mike Howland — were at the Foreign ministry at the time of the takeover.

* Michael Howland, 34 — Assistant Regional Security Officer, held at Iranian Foreign Ministry Office

The American whaler ship John Howland ( with Captain William H. Whitfield in command ) rescued them and, at the end of the voyage, dropped four of them in Honolulu ; however Manjirō ( nicknamed " John Mung ") wanted to stay on the ship.

Two uninhabited atolls, Howland Island and Baker Island, just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean ( and ships at sea between 172. 5 ° W and 180 °) have the latest time on Earth of UTC-12 hours.

He was born at the Ritz in London to John Ian Robert Russell, Lord Howland ( later 13th Duke ) and his first wife, Clare Gwendolyn Bridgman.

An active abolitionist, Howland taught at Normal School for Colored Girls in Washington, D. C. from 1857 to 1859.

In 1882 she assumed control over the Sherwood Select school as owner and consulting head, a position she held up to her one hundredth year in 1927, at which point it was renamed the Emily Howland School by the New York State Board of Regents.

Born in 1811 in Pawling, New York, William Howland was educated at Kinderhook Academy.

The Howland Hook Marine Terminal is a container port facility located at the northwestern corner of Staten Island at the entrance to the Arthur Kill.