Baker Island

Proper noun

Baker Island

1. a US 2.1 km² uninhabited atoll just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, geographically together with Howland Island part of the Rawaki Islands
   • It has been demonstrated that these islands have been often visited by our whale ships, and we confidently predict a vast trade in American guano will be established. The Baker Island guano has been analyzed, and found to be surpassingly rich in phosphates.1857 June 4, “THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES, And the Sympathy of Navy Officers with the Interests of Agriculturists.”, in The National Era, volume XI, number 544, Washington, D. C., page 90, column 7
   • By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of June 25, 1910, Ch. 421, 36 Stat. 847, as amended by the Act of August 24, 1912, ch. 369, 37 Stat. 497, and as President of the United States, it is ordered that Jarvis Island located in the Pacific Ocean approximately in latitude...1936 May 13, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7368—Placing Certain Islands in the Pacific Ocean Under the Control and Jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, archived from the original...