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Baker Island (possession) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 00 11 41 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 0.1940 decimal degrees |
| Long: 176 28 46 W degrees minutes |
Long: -176.4740 decimal degrees |
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Note: A saucer-shaped coral atoll in the South Pacific; it is uninhabited & arid. It is approximately 1 mile long and 1500 yards wide. Administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Named New Nantucket Island in 1825 by a whaler named Orbed Starbuck but later renamed Baker Island by an American mariner, Capt. Michael Baker, in 1832. It was occupied by Hawaiian colonists in 1935; originally claimed by USA to harvest guano deposits. It has been valued for its strategic importance; site of a US Coast Guard LORAN station in WW II. |
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| Baker Island (preferred,C,V,English)
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| FQ (C,V,FIPS)
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| Baker (C,U,Finnish)
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| Baker (Polish)
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| Baker (Dutch)
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| Baker Adası (C,U,Turkish)
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| Baker-eiland (C,U,Afrikaans)
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| Bakereyja (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Baker-Insel (C,U,Luxembourgish)
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| Bakerinsel (C,U,German)
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| Bakerinsl (C,U,Bavarian)
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| Bakerinsulo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Baker-insulo (C,U,Ido)
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| Bakeri saar (C,U,Estonian)
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| Bakerjev otok (C,U,Slovene)
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| Bakerön (C,U,Swedish)
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| Bakerov ostrov (C,U,Slovak)
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| Bakerøya (C,U,Norwegian)
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| Baker-sziget (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Baker-tó (C,U,Chinese, Min Nan)
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| Baker uhartea (C,U,Basque)
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| Bakerův ostrov (C,U,Czech)
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| Beassášsuolu (C,U,Northern Sami)
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| Beikera sala (C,U,Latvian)
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| Beyker adası (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Đảo Baker (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Enys Baker (C,U,Cornish)
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| Erékùṣù Baker (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Île Baker (C,U,French)
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| Ilha Baker (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Illa Baker (C,U,Catalan)
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| Illa Baker (Galician)
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| Insula Baker (C,U,Latin)
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| Insula Baker (Romanian)
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| Isla Baker (C,U,Spanish)
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| Isoa Baker (C,U,Ligurian)
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| Isola Baker (C,U,Italian)
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| Ìsula Baker (C,U,Sicilian)
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| Ostrvo Baker (C,U,Bosnian)
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| Otok Baker (C,U,Croatian)
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| Pulau Baker (C,U,Indonesian)
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| Pulau Baker (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Pulo Baker (C,U,Javanese)
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| Pulo Baker (Sunda)
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| Бейкер (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Бейкер (Russian)
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| Бейкер (Chechen)
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| Бејкер (C,U,Serbian)
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| 貝克島 (C,U,Chinese, Yue)
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| 貝克島 (Chinese)
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| बेकर बेट (C,U,Marathi)
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| ബേക്കർ ദ്വീപ് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| 베이커 섬 (C,U,Korean)
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| جزيرة بيكر (C,U,Arabic)
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| جزیره بیکر (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| جزیرہ بیکر (C,U,Urdu)
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| Բեյքերի կղզի (C,U,Armenian)
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| ベーカー島 (C,U,Japanese)
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| ბეიკერი (C,U,Georgian)
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| בייקר (C,U,Hebrew )
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| เกาะเบเกอร์ (C,U,Thai)
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| Бејкеров Остров (C,U,Macedonian)
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| பேக்கர் தீவு (C,U,Tamil)
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| Μπαίηκερ (C,U,Greek)
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| Бейкер аралы (C,U,Kazakh)
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| Востраў Бэйкер (C,U,Belarusian)
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| New Nantucket Island (H,V)
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| Phoebe Island (H,V)
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| possession (preferred, C) |
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claimed by USA in 1857; abandoned during WW II but re-occupied in 1944 |
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| first level subdivision (C) |
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| unincorporated territory (C) |
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| island (C) |
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