Two low-lying, nearly level, sandy, coral islands surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area. Located in the North Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and Australia.
The US took possession of the islands in 1857 and they remain an unincorporated territory, administered from Washington, DC, USA.
This category contains links to sites about the Howland and Barker Islands.
Model of what these two islands could have been like under different circumstances. All of the information on this site relating to the current inhabitation of the islands is fictional. users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/RHBJ.htm
Transcript of a travel log by a reporter on a scientific program. Details obsevations of Howland Island, with descriptions of the geography and bird life. Include audio files. www.pbs.org/odyssey/odyssey/20001204_log_transcript.html
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