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 at last named after a lookout who sighted it from the whaleship Isabella of New Bedford on September 9, 1842.

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 ".

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.

* Howland Island, an uninhabited coral island that is an unorganized territory of the United States

The sixth town in the colony to be incorporated, the town was named for Wriothesley Russell, Baron Howland of Streatham, a friend of Massachusetts Royal Governor Samuel Shute, when New Hampshire was still a part of that colony.

Known as Lord Howland until his grandfather's death in 2002, when he adopted the courtesy title of Marquess of Tavistock, previously held by his father, Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford.

He was unable to obtain a regular place in the side as a wicket keeper and only played in that position when first choice stumper Chris Howland was unavailable.

He objects when his sister, Sloan Howland, announces she plans to marry Paul Kahana, a native Hawaiian, even though Richard is having a torrid affair with an Asian woman, Mai Chen.

The firm was founded in 1946 when six partners — including Henry Friendly — from the firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland ( which became Dewey Ballantine in the 1950s and which subsequently became Dewey & LeBoeuf before the latter filed for bankruptcy in New York on May 28, 2012 ) left Root, Clark to found a firm which they initially called " Cleary, Friendly, Gottlieb & Steen.

It all started when Lauder, Spears and Howland of Toronto, began producing lumber under contract to the Schroeder Mills & Timber Co., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

After her graduation from Mount Holyoke College in 1847, Howland received an ornate English Valentine from a business associate of her father when she was 19 years old.

John Howland may have accompanied Carver's household from Leiden when the Speedwell left Delfshaven for Southampton, England, July, 1620.