Lord Howe may refer to: *

Earl Howe Earl Howe is a title that has been created twice in British history, for members of the Howe and Curzon-Howe family respectively. The first creation, in the Peerage of Great Britain, was in 1788 for Richard Howe, but became extinct on his ...

(also Viscount Howe and Baron Howe), a peerage title in the United Kingdom, including: **

Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, (8 March 1726 – 5 August 1799) was a British naval officer. After serving throughout the War of the Austrian Succession, he gained a reputation for his role in amphibious operations aga ...

(1726–1799), Admiral of the Fleet *

Geoffrey Howe Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, (20 December 1926 – 9 October 2015) was a British Conservative politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1990. Howe was Margaret Thatch ...

(1926–2015), later Baron Howe of Aberavon, the longest-serving British cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher

Geography

Lord Howe Island Lord Howe Island (; formerly Lord Howe's Island) is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. It lies directly east of mainland P ...

, an island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Australia *Lord Howe Atoll, also known as

Ontong Java Atoll Ontong Java Atoll or Luangiua, (formerly ''Lord Howe Atoll'', not to be confused with Lord Howe Island) is one of the largest atolls on earth. Geographically it belongs to a scattered group of three atolls which includes nearby Nukumanu Atol ...

(not to be confused with Lord Howe Island) * Lord Howe Province, a marine biogeographic region of Australia * Lord Howe Rise, an underwater plateau in the Pacific Ocean *

Lord Howe Seamount Chain The Lord Howe Seamount Chain formed during the Miocene. It features many coral-capped guyots and is one of the two parallel seamount chains alongside the east coast of Australia; the Lord Howe and Tasmantid seamount chains both run north-south ...

, a seamount chain on northern Lord Howe Rise

Biology

There are a number of species endemic to Lord Howe Island whose name includes the words ''Lord Howe'':

Birds

Lord Howe boobook The Lord Howe boobook (''Ninox novaeseelandiae albaria''), also known as the Lord Howe morepork, was a bird in the true owl family endemic to Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea, part of New South Wales, Australia. It is an extinct and little-know ...

, the extinct bird whose scientific name is ''Ninox novaeseelandiae albaria'' *

Lord Howe currawong The Lord Howe currawong (''Strepera graculina crissalis''), Lord Howe Island currawong or Lord Howe pied currawong, is a large and mainly black passerine bird in the family Artamidae. It is endemic to Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea, part of ...

or ''Strepera graculina crissalis'' * Lord Howe fantail or ''Rhipidura fuliginosa cervina'', extinct * Lord Howe gerygone or ''Gerygone insularis'', extinct * Lord Howe golden whistler or ''Pachycephala pectoralis contempta'' * Lord Howe morepork, another name for the Lord Howe boobook * Lord Howe pigeon or ''Columba vitiensis godmanae'', extinct * Lord Howe red-crowned parakeet or ''Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae subflavescens'', extinct * Lord Howe silvereye or ''Zosterops lateralis tephropleurus'' *

Lord Howe starling The Tasman starling (''Aplonis fusca'') was described in 1836 by John Gould as a species which occurred on both Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. In 1928 Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews recognized that the plumage of the race from Lor ...

or ''Aplonis fuscus hullianus'', extinct *

Lord Howe swamphen The white swamphen (''Porphyrio albus''), also known as the Lord Howe swamphen, Lord Howe gallinule or white gallinule, is an extinct species of rail which lived on Lord Howe Island, east of Australia. It was first encountered when the crews ...

or ''Porphyrio albus'', extinct *

Lord Howe woodhen The Lord Howe woodhen (''Hypotaenidia sylvestris'') also known as the Lord Howe Island woodhen or Lord Howe (Island) rail, is a flightless bird of the rail family, (Rallidae). It is endemic to Lord Howe Island off the Australian coast. It is curr ...

or ''Gallirallus sylvestris'', endangered

Other species

Lord Howe flax snail The Lord Howe flax snail or the Lord Howe placostylus, scientific name ''Placostylus bivaricosus'', is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bothriembryontidae. MolluscaBase eds ...

or ''Placostylus bivaricosus'', an endangered snail * Lord Howe Island butterflyfish or ''Amphichaetodon howensis'', a fish *

Lord Howe Island skink The Lord Howe Island skink (''Oligosoma lichenigerum'') is a part of the native Australian reptiles’ classification. The Lord Howe Island Skink is a species of skink in the family Scincidae, located on Australia's Norfolk Island and Lord Howe ...

or ''Cyclodina lichenigera'', a lizard * Lord Howe long-eared bat or ''Nyctophilus howensis'', an extinct or endangered bat

Other uses

* Lord Howe Monster, a fictional creature fought by Godzilla *Lord Howe, a Scilly

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