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Aerial view of Baker Island. Image courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
American settlers arrived on Baker Island in 1935 and built a lighthouse, but the settlement was evacuated at the start of World War II, with the island remaining uninhabited and rarely visited since then. Image courtesy of the US Fish and and Wildlife Service.
In 2015, the Midway Memorial Marker was erected on the island to commemorate the 1942 Battle of Midway during World War II. Image courtesy USFWS/ Megan Nagel.
The Battle of Midway National Monument sits at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. The battle was a turning point in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Photo courtesy of the US Navy/ Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel Barker.
Remains of a guano tramway on Jarvis Island, with late-19th century heaps of mined but never-shipped guano in the background near the day beacon. Image courtesy of USFWS.
Sign on Howland Island noting its status as a wildlife refuge. The Earhart Light day beacon is on the right. Photo courtesy USFWS/C. Newton
The masked booby is the largest of the booby family. Adults are a little under a meter in length and their wingspan is about 1.5 meters. Photo courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
The red-footed booby is the smallest of the dozen booby species. The adult and chick pictured here live on Baker Island, which is part of the US Pacific Wildlife Refuges. Image courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Soldierfish swim by corals at Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge. Image courtesy of USFWS/Jim Maragos.
A group of ruddy turnstones gathers along a Jarvis Island shoreline. Image courtesy of the USFWS.
Bristle-thighed curlews on a Jarvis Island beach. Image courtesy of the USFWS.
Pufferfish swimming in a coral garden at Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge. Photo courtesy of USFWS.
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