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National Trade Data Bank
ITEM ID     : CI WOFACT WO0021
DATE        : Oct 28, 1994
 
AGENCY      : CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PROGRAM     : WORLD FACTBOOK
TITLE       : World Factbook: Baker Island
 
Source key      : CI 
Program key     : CI WOFACT 
Update sched.   : Annually         
Data type       : TEXT 
End year        : 1994
Date of record  : 19941020
Keywords 3      :  
Keywords 3      : | Baker Island 
 
 
                               Baker Island
 
 
                                  Header
 
Affiliation:
     (territory of the US)
 
                                 Geography
 
Location:
     Oceania, Micronesia, in the North Pacific Ocean, just north of the
     Equator, 2,575 km southwest of Honolulu, about halfway between Hawaii
     and Australia
Map references:
     Oceania
Area:
total area:
     1.4 sq km
land area:
     1.4 sq km
comparative area:
     about 2.3 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
Land boundaries:
     0 km
Coastline:
     4.8 km
Maritime claims:
contiguous zone:
     12 nm
continental shelf:
     200-m depth or to depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone:
     200 nm
territorial sea:
     12 nm
International disputes:
     none
Climate:
     equatorial; scant rainfall, constant wind, burning sun
Terrain:
     low, nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
Natural resources:
     guano (deposits worked until 1891)
Land use:
arable land:
     0%
permanent crops:
     0%
meadows and pastures:
     0%
forest and woodland:
     0%
other:
     100%
Irrigated land:
     0 sq km
 
 
Environment:
current issues:
     lacks fresh water
natural hazards:
     NA
international agreements:
     NA
Note:
     treeless, sparse, and scattered vegetation consisting of grasses,
     prostrate vines, and low growing shrubs; primarily a nesting,
     roosting, and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine
     wildlife
 
                                  People
 
Population:
     uninhabited; note - American civilians evacuated in 1942 after
     Japanese air and naval attacks during World War II; occupied by US
     military during World War II, but abandoned after the war; public
     entry is by special-use permit only and generally restricted to
     scientists and educators; a cemetery and cemetery ruins are located
     near the middle of the west coast
 
                                Government
 
Names:
conventional long form:
     none
conventional short form:
Digraph:
     FQ
Type:
     unincorporated territory of the US administered by the Fish and
     Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the
     National Wildlife Refuge system
Capital:
     none; administered from Washington, DC
 
                                  Economy
 
Overview:
     no economic activity
 
                              Communications
 
Ports:
     none; offshore anchorage only, one boat landing area along the middle
     of the west coast
Airports:
     1 abandoned World War II runway of 1,665 m
Note:
     there is a day beacon near the middle of the west coast
 
 
                              Defense Forces
 
     defense is the responsibility of the US; visited annually by the US
     Coast Guard
 
 
 
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This section of THE WORLD FACTBOOK 1994 produced by the United States
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was derived from the US Dept. of Commerce
Economics and Statistics Division's NATIONAL TRADE DATA BANK (NTDB) CD-ROM,
November, 1994, SuDoc No. C 1.88:994/11/v.1-2 / Presented by Raleigh Muns,
(srcmuns@umslvma.umsl.edu) University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.