Baker Island

Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean at coordinates 0 ° 13 'N 176 ° 31' west, nearly 3100 km (1675 nautical miles) southeast of Honolulu. Nearly half the trip from Hawaii to Australia.

Baker Island National Shelter consists of 405 islands the size of land (1.64 km ²) of land size and around 30.504 (123.45 km ²) of land under water. Now the island is a National Shelter regulated U.S. Fisheries and Wildlife as an area of ​​the island under the U.S. Department of Home Affairs. Baker Island is the area that is not incorporated and managed the U.S..
Defense is the responsibility of the U.S.; though uninhabited, seen every year by the U.S. Coast Guard.
Baker Island was discovered in 1818 by whalers Equator captain Elisha Folger of Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States and given the name "New Nantucket" (New Nantucket). In August 1825, the island is in the "found" repeated by Captain Obed Starbuck who is also a ship captain from Nantucket whalers deliveryman. The name is taken from Michael Baker Island Baker who visited the island in 1834.