Howland and Baker Islands

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Howland and Baker Islands

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Howland and Baker Islands are two uninhabited U.S. atolls in the Equatorial Pacific that are located close to one another. Both islands are wildlife refuges, the larger of which is Howland Island. The pair of islands may also be referred to as Baker and Howland Islands. They are both part of the larger political territory of the United States Minor Outlying Islands and they are also both part of the larger geographic grouping of the Phoenix Islands. Each is a National Wildlife Refuge managed by a division of Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. On January 6, 2009, President George Bush, in creating the monument, added both islands to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. The Howland-Baker exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a 400 nautical-mile diameter area protected by the U.S. Coast Guard. The Howland-Baker EEZ has 425,700 km2; and by comparison, California has 423,970 km2. Howland Island was the area that Amelia Earhart was trying to reach in 1937 when she disappeared. In the age of Internet communication, the islands have attracted attention as 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 pass.

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Enlaces externos relacionado http://oos.soest.hawaii.edu/pacioos/outreach/regions/howland.php https://maps.google.com/maps%3Fftid=0x7aa6e915e52cec5b:0x5664b553e095d100&q=Howland+Island&hl=en&t=h&z=14&iwloc=0 https://maps.google.com/maps%3Fftid=0x7aa744678a9f841d:0x1ca1ca257cc16b66&q=Baker+Island&hl=en&t=h&z=14&iwloc=0 https://whc.unesco.org/document/105314