The story
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Baker Island
Today it means: 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 Full definition →