The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM) was established by President George W. Bush in 2009, protecting ...

President Donald Trump has signed an order stripping protections from the Pacific Islands Marine Heritage National Monument ...

A photograph from a 2009 expedition in the Pacific Ocean around Nikumaroro Island — a remote atoll between New Zealand ... ran out of fuel on its way to Howland Island and crashed into the ...

Their last known position was reported as near the Nukumanu Islands, an atoll off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Radio logs from the USCG Itasca—which was stationed at Howland Island to guide ...

Bush in 2009, protecting an area surrounding Wake, Baker, Howland and Jarvis islands, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll, to the south and west of Hawaii. Read more ...

On July 2, 1937, pilot Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan hopped into their Lockheed 10-E Electra and headed for Howland Island, a 0.6-square-mile coral atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

In another theory, they crash landed not in the Pacific Ocean but on the remote, uninhabited Nikumaroro Atoll, an island about 400 miles south of Howland. Another theory says that Earhart ...

By 1938 the island was colonized as part of the Phoenix ... The distance from Howland to Mili Atoll is 800 miles—nearly four and a half hours away at the Electra’s cruising speed.

Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Atoll. U.S. Rep. Ed Case commended the ...

The duo was last heard from while flying between Lae, Papua New Guinea, and Howland Island, a small coral atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean. Earhart flew a ...

The other nine—Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, Wake Island and Navassa Island—are uninhabited outlying islands.