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Baker Island (other)
Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean. Baker Island may also refer to: * Baker Island (Alaska), an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, US * Baker Island (British Columbia), an island in the Broughton Archipelago, Canada * Baker Island (Maine), an island in the Town of Cranberry Isles, Maine, US * Baker Island (Pennsylvania), an alluvial island in Forest County, Pennsylvania, US * Baker Island (West Virginia), a former island on the Ohio River in Hancock County, West Virginia, US * Baker Island in McDougall Sound, Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada See also * Bakers Island, a private residential island in Massachusetts Bay, in Salem, Massachusetts, US * Baker's Island Baker's Island is an island in Langstone Harbour, Hampshire, England. It is long and up to wide but only rises to a little over above Ordnance Datum. Mesolithic and Neolithic flintwork has been found on the island along with Bronze Age and R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baker Island
Baker Island, formerly known as New Nantucket, is an uninhabited atoll just north of the Equator in the central Pacific Ocean about southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, to the north-northwest; both have been claimed as territories of the United States since 1857, though the United Kingdom considered them part of the British Empire between 1897 and 1936. The island covers , with of coastline. The climate is equatorial, with little rainfall, constant wind, and strong sunshine. The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area devoid of a lagoon with its highest point being above sea level. The island now forms the Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge and is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the U.S. which vouches for its defense. It is visited annually by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For statistical p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baker Island (Alaska)
Baker Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, United States. It lies off the central west coast of Prince of Wales Island. Its closest significant island neighbors are Noyes Island to its northwest, Lulu Island directly to its north, and Suemez Island across Bucareli Bay to its southeast. The smaller San Juan Bautista Island and St. Ignace Island separate it from Prince of Wales Island and its nearest community, Craig. The island has a land area of and is uninhabited. The first European to sight the island was Aleksei Chirikov in 1741. It was named by William Healy Dall of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is a United States federal agency that defines and manages a national coordinate system, providing the foundation for transportation and communication; mapping and charting; and a large number of applications ... in 1879 after Marcus Baker (1849–1903). References Islands of the Alexander Arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baker Island (British Columbia)
Baker Island, formerly known as New Nantucket, is an uninhabited atoll just north of the Equator in the central Pacific Ocean about southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, to the north-northwest; both have been claimed as territories of the United States since 1857, though the United Kingdom considered them part of the British Empire between 1897 and 1936. The island covers , with of coastline. The climate is equatorial, with little rainfall, constant wind, and strong sunshine. The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area devoid of a lagoon with its highest point being above sea level. The island now forms the Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge and is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the U.S. which vouches for its defense. It is visited annually by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broughton Archipelago
Broughton Archipelago is a group of islands located at the eastern end of Queen Charlotte Strait in Mount Waddington Regional District, British Columbia. The archipelago is the traditional territory of the Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw, Namgis, Ma'amtagila and Tlowitsis nations of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples. Etymology Broughton Archipelago was named in 1792 by George Vancouver in honour of William Robert Broughton, the captain of the expedition's second ship, ''HMS Chatham''. Geography The Broughton Archipelago includes numerous islands and islets scattered throughout the eastern end of Queen Charlotte Strait. The largest island of the archipelago is Gilford Island with a total area of . Cormorant Island is the most densely populated island with 270 residents/km2 (710 residents/mi2) as of 2016. The major islands of the Broughton Archipelago are as follows: * Baker Island * Bonwick Island * Broughton Island * Cormorant Island * Crease Island * East Cracroft Island * Eden Islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baker Island (Maine)
Baker Island is an island located in Maine, United States. It marks the southwestern entrance to Frenchman Bay, about four miles (2.5 km) south of Mt. Desert Island. It is one of the five islands in the town of Cranberry Isles. The island is not inhabited year round. There are only three property owners on the island: two are private residence owners, with the rest of the island (well over 75% of the total land) belonging to the National Park Service. Baker Island Light sits in the center of the island. The station began in 1828 on the order of John Quincy Adams, to warn of the shoals around the Cranberry Isles and the sand bar running between Baker Island and Little Cranberry Island. The current tower was built in 1855 and automated in 1966. The lighthouse is a historic site listed in the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, struct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baker Island (Pennsylvania)
Baker Island is a alluvial island in the upper Allegheny River. It is located in Tionesta Township and Harmony Township in Forest County, Pennsylvania, and is part of the Allegheny Islands Wilderness in Allegheny National Forest. Most of the trees on Baker Island were destroyed by a 1985 tornado. Though the island does host many large American Sycamore ''Platanus occidentalis'', also known as American sycamore, American planetree, western plane, occidental plane, buttonwood, and water beech, is a species of ''Platanus'' native to the eastern and central United States, the mountains of northeas ..., including the tallest American Sycamore in Pennsylvania. The tree measured 148 ft in June of 2009. ReferencesNature Tourism [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baker Island (West Virginia)
Baker Island was an island on the Ohio River in Hancock County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It was located south of Wellsville, Ohio. It appears to have been dredged away sometime between 1960 and 1994, and no trace of it remains. See also *List of islands of West Virginia This is a list of islands of West Virginia. See also * List of islands on the Potomac River {{Authority control * Islands in West Virginia, List of West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and South ... Former islands of the United States {{HancockCountyWV-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McDougall Sound
McDougall Sound is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It is located between southeastern Bathurst Island and western Cornwallis island. The sound's southern mouth opens to the Parry Channel, and beyond that, to the Barrow Strait. The sound's northern mouth opens to Crozier Strait. The sound is populated by several smaller islands, the named ones including Milne Island, Little Cornwallis Island, Wood Island, Neal Islands, Truro Island, and Baker Island. McDougall Sound is the namesake of George F. McDougall who explored the sound in 1851 while wintering with Capt. Horatio Austin's search team seeking the lost Franklin Expedition. Fauna The sound is home to bearded seal. Atlantic walrus (''O. rosmarus rosmarus'') have also been charted as far west as McDougall Sound. Ethnography In his 1990 study of Paleo-Eskimo people (who preceded the Inuit), Helmer describes three occupation periods in the McDougall Sound region: Transitional Period Dorset (ca. 3000 BP), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakers Island
Bakers Island is a small, private residential island in Massachusetts Bay, in Salem, Massachusetts. It is located southeast of Great Misery Island & Little Misery Island, northeast of North Gooseberry Island and South Gooseberry Island, and far northeast of Children's Island. It is the outermost island on the main shipping channel into Salem Harbor. Bakers Island Light, located on the island's northern side, is used for navigation. The island is pear-shaped. Most of its coast is rocky ledges, except for its western coast. There are three small landlocked ponds located near one another at the center. Vegetation on the island is trees and scrub. There is a private pier on the west side. Most of the buildings are concentrated in the western and southern portions of the island. The approximately island was known as Bakers Island as early as the 1630s. Originally owned by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it was granted to the town of Salem in 1660. John Turner was the first private o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
