376 CORALS AND CORAL ISLANDS. 
into it. According to Captain Ringgold of the Wilkes Ex- 
pedition, it has a height of fifty feet, which, if correct, would 
indicate an elevation of full thirty-five feet. The northwest 
side is, throughout, a cocoanut grove. 
Fint’s Island, in 11° 26’ S., and 151° 48’ W., is only a 
mile and a half long, but is thickly wooded, according to Cap: ‘ 
tain Ringgold, which is unusual for so small an island. 
Staver’s Island, in 10° 05’ 8., and 152° 223’ W., is only 
half a mile across, and yet is well wooded. Both of these 
islands were passed by Captain Ringgold, but he does not 
state the height.—(Wilkes’s Narr., iv. 277.) 
Baker's Island, 0° 13’ N., 176° 22’ W., is one mile 
long and two-thirds of a mile wide. The greatest height, 
according to J. D. Hague, is twenty-two feet, “showing some 
evidences of elevation.” (See further, p. 289.) It has prob- 
ably been elevated at least s¢x feet. 
Howland’s Island, 0° 51’ N., and 176° 32’ W., and about 
forty miles north of Baker’s. It is about one and one-half 
miles long, and one-half mile wide. The highest point, accord- 
ing to Hague, is ten or twelve feet above high-tide level; 
which is evidence of but little if any elevation. It is a guano 
island like Baker’s. 
McKean’s Island, of the Phenix Group (like Phenix, En- 
derbury, and Birnie’s), in 38° 35’S., 174° 17’ W,, is a low 
island, according to Hague, circular in form, one-quarter of a 
mile in diameter, but less elevated than Jarvis Island, It has 
a lagoon depression in which there is a gypsum and guano de- 
posit; and at high tides the guano is sometimes two feet under 
water. Phenia’s Island, near McKean’s, 3° 40’ 8.,170° 52’ 
W., is less than half a mile in diameter, and the border is only 
eight or ten feet high; so that there is no evidence in the 
heicht of an elevation. It is also a guano island. 
