Howland Island

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Howland Island is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about 1,700 nautical miles southwest of Honolulu. For statistical purposes the island is grouped as one of the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge consists of Howland Island itself and the surrounding 32,074 acres of submerged land. The island is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an insular area under the U.S. Department of the Interior and is part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

Howland Island is best known as the island that Amelia Earhart was searching for but never reached when her aircraft disappeared on July 2, 1937.