Baker Island (previously New Nantucket) is an uninhabited atoll just north of the Equator in the central Pacific Ocean about 3,090 km (1,920 mi) southwest of Honolulu.The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, 42 mi (68 km) to the north-northwest; both have been claimed as territories of the United States since 1857, …

Baker Lake (Inuktitut syllabics: ᖃᒪᓂᑦᑐᐊᖅ 'big lake joined by a river at both ends', Inuktitut: Qamani'tuaq 'where the river widens') is a hamlet in the Kivalliq Region, in Nunavut on mainland Canada. Located 320 km (200 mi) inland from Hudson Bay, it is near the nation's geographical centre, and is notable for being Nunavut's sole inland community.

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Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American novelist and essayist. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization. His early novels such as The Mezzanine and Room Temperature were distinguished by their minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness.Out of a total of ten …

Stewart Island (Māori: Rakiura, lit. 'glowing skies', officially Stewart Island / Rakiura) is New Zealand's third-largest island, located 30 kilometres (16 nautical miles) south of the South Island, across the Foveaux Strait.It is a roughly triangular island with a total land area of 1,746 km 2 (674 sq mi). Its 164-kilometre (102 mi) coastline is deeply creased by Paterson Inlet (east), Port ...

Baker Street is a London Underground station at the junction of Baker Street and the Marylebone Road in the City of Westminster.It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway (MR), the world's first underground railway, opened on 10 January 1863.. The station is in Travelcard Zone 1 and is served by five lines. On the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines it is between …

Simon Richard Baker III (born March 30, 1986) is an Aboriginal Canadian actor, of Cree, Haida, and Squamish descent. He hails from North Vancouver-Capilano, British Columbia.Baker began his filming career at the age nine in the movie Once in a Blue Moon. He played Charlie in North of 60.. Filmography. Once in a Blue Moon (1995); Back to Turtle Island (1995); The Sweet …

Love Island is a British dating game show. It is a revival of the earlier celebrity series of the same name, which aired for two series in 2005 and 2006, and was hosted by Caroline Flack until her suspension in 2019; Laura Whitmore presented the series from 2020 to 2022. The series is the originator of the international Love Island franchise, with twenty-two versions of it having been …

The first Baker vehicle was a two seater with a selling price of US$850. One was sold to Thomas Edison as his first car. Edison also designed the nickel-iron batteries used in some Baker electrics. These batteries have extremely long lives. 1902 accident. In May 1902, Baker took part in a speed trial on a public road on Staten Island, New York.

An Island Parish is a British television documentary made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Two.Series 1 and 2 covered the lives of residents of the Church of England parish of the Isles of Scilly.These series were supported by the Diocese of Truro. They followed A Seaside Parish, which covered the work of the Reverend Christine Musser in the parish of Boscastle in …