Howland Island
Howland Island is an uninhabited island in Polynesia, a region of the Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and Australia. It is most notable for what didn't happen here: the arrival of Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated around-the-world flight.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: insular area of the United States
- Description: coral island in the central Pacific Ocean; unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States of America
- Also known as: “Worth Island”
Howland Island
- Category: island
- Location: Polynesia, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Howland Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Howland-eiland”
- Afrikaans: “Howland”
- Afrikaans: “Howlandeiland”
- Arabic: “جزيرة هاولاند”
- Armenian: “Հաուլենդ”
- Azerbaijani: “Haulend adası”
- Basque: “Howland uhartea”
- Basque: “Howland Uhartea”
- Bavarian: “Howlandinsel”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Хаўленд”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Хоўленд”
- Belarusian: “Выспа Гоўланда”
- Belarusian: “Гоўланд”
- Belarusian: “Хаўленд”
- Bengali: “হল্যান্ড দ্বীপ”
- Bosnian: “Howland otok”
- Bosnian: “Ostrvo Howland”
- Bulgarian: “Хауланд (остров)”
- Bulgarian: “Хауланд”
- Catalan: “illa Howland”
- Catalan: “Illa Howland”
- Catalan: “Illes Howland”
- Cebuano: “Howland Island”
- Chechen: “Хауленд”
- Chinese: “Howland-tó”
- Chinese: “豪兰岛”
- Chinese: “豪蘭島”
- Corsican: “Isula Howland”
- Croatian: “Otok Howland”
- Czech: “Howlandův ostrov”
- Danish: “Howland-øen”
- Danish: “Howlandøen”
- Dutch: “Howland eiland”
- Dutch: “Howland Island”
- Dutch: “Howland-eiland”
- Dutch: “Howland”
- Dutch: “Howlandeiland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره هاولاند”
- Esperanto: “Haŭlandinsulo”
- Esperanto: “Hoŭlandinsulo”
- Esperanto: “Hoŭlando”
- Esperanto: “Howland island”
- Esperanto: “Howland islands”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Howland”
- Estonian: “Howland”
- Estonian: “Howlandi atoll”
- Estonian: “Howlandi saar”
- Finnish: “Howland”
- Finnish: “Howlandinsaari”
- French: “Base navale et aérienne Howland”
- French: “Howland Island”
- French: “Howland Naval Air Station”
- French: “Ile Howland”
- French: “île Howland”
- French: “Île Howland”
- French: “Île Worth”
- French: “Worth Island”
- Galician: “Illa Howland”
- Georgian: “ჰოულენდი”
- German: “Howland Island”
- German: “Howland-Insel”
- German: “Howlandinsel”
- German: “UM-84”
- Greek: “Χάουλαντ Νήσος”
- Greek: “Χάουλαντ”
- Gujarati: “હોલેન્ડ આઇલેન્ડ”
- Hebrew: “האולנד”
- Hindi: “हॉउलैंड द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Howland-sziget”
- Icelandic: “Howland-eyja”
- Icelandic: “Howlandeyja”
- Ido: “Insulo Howland”
- Indonesian: “Howland Island”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Howland”
- Interlingua: “Insula de Howland”
- Irish: “Oileán Howland”
- Italian: “Howland Island”
- Italian: “Isola Howland”
- Japanese: “ハウランド島”
- Javanese: “Pulo Howland”
- Kannada: “ಹೌಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ದ್ವೀಪ”
- Kazakh: “Хаулэнд аралы”
- Korean: “하울란드 섬”
- Korean: “하울랜드섬”
- Latin: “Insula Howland”
- Latvian: “Haulenda sala”
- Latvian: “Houlenda sala”
- Latvian: “Hovlenda sala”
- Limburgan: “Howland Island”
- Lithuanian: “Houlando sala”
- Macedonian: “Хауленд”
- Malay: “Pulau Howland”
- Malayalam: “Howland Island”
- Malayalam: “ഹൗലാന്റ് ദ്വീപ്”
- Marathi: “हाउलँड बेट”
- Marathi: “हॉवेँड आईसलँड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Howland-tó”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Howland Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Howlandøya”
- Norwegian: “Howlandøya”
- Persian: “جزیره هاولند”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ هاولند”
- Persian: “هاولند”
- Polish: “Howland”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Howland”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Howland”
- Portuguese: “UM-84”
- Portuguese: “US-84”
- Romanian: “Insula Howland”
- Russian: “Остров Хауленд”
- Russian: “Остров Хаулэнд”
- Russian: “Остров Хоулэнд”
- Russian: “Хауленд”
- Russian: “Хаулэнд”
- Russian: “Хоуленд”
- Russian: “Хоулэнд”
- Sardinian: “Ìsula Howland”
- Scots: “Howland Island”
- Serbian: “Хауланд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Howland”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otok Howland”
- Shan: “ၵုၼ်ႁေႃးလႅၼ်ႇ”
- Sicilian: “Ìsula Howland”
- Sinhala: “හව්ලන්ඩ් දූපත”
- Sinhala: “හොලන්ඩ් දුපත”
- Slovak: “Howland”
- Slovak: “Howlandov ostrov”
- Slovenian: “Howland Island”
- Slovenian: “Howlandov otok”
- Spanish: “Howland”
- Spanish: “Isla Howland”
- Sundanese: “Pulo Howland”
- Swedish: “Howland Island”
- Swedish: “Howland”
- Swedish: “Howlandön”
- Tamil: “ஹவுலாந்து தீவு”
- Tamil: “ஹௌலாண்ட் ஐஸ்லாந்து”
- Telugu: “హోవ్లాండ్ దీవి”
- Thai: “เกาะฮาวแลนด์”
- Turkish: “Howland Adası”
- Turkish: “Howland”
- Ukrainian: “Гауленд”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Гауленд”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ ہاولینڈ”
- Venetian: “ìzoła Howland”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Howland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Purô Howland”
- Welsh: “Ynys Howland”
- Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ ہاولینڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “豪兰岛”
- Yoruba: “Erékùṣù Howland”
- Yoruba: “Howland Island”
- Yue Chinese: “豪蘭島”
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