Baker Island is an uninhabited atoll set just north of the equator in using the central Pacific Ocean at 0°13'N 176°31'W, around 3,100 km (1,675 nautical miles) southwest of Honolulu. For instance grouped together as section of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, it is almost one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia.

Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge consists of the 405 acre (1.64 km²) island & a surrounding 30,504 acres (123.45 km²) of submerged land. The island is now a National Wildlife Refuge managed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service as an insular region under the U.S. Department of the Interior. Baker Island is an unincorporated and unorganized province of the U.S.

Its defense is the obligation of the United States though uninhabited, it is visited each year by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The settlement Meyerton had a population of four American civilians evacuated in 1942 after Japanese air and naval attacks. During World War II They was inhabited by the U.S. military. Since the war, Baker has been uninhabited.

Feral cats existed eradicated from the island in 1964. Public entry is by special-use permit given by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service just and generally restricted to scientists and educators.

There are no ports or harbors, with anchorage available just offshore. There is one boat landing region along the middle of the west coast. In that location is an abandoned World War II runway, 1,665 meters long, which one is totally covered with vegetation and unusable.

Natural hazards: The narrow down fringing reef surrounding the island can be a marine hazard and In that location is a day beacon close the middle of the west coast.