Baker Island

== English == === Alternative forms === (obsolete) Baker's Island === Etymology === Named for Captain Michael Baker (1802-1860) who sold his rights and interests to the island in 1855 to a group that later established the American Guano Company. === Proper noun === Baker Island 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 For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Baker Island. ==== Translations ====