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The tiny atoll featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image is Baker Island, located just north of the Equator in the central Pacific Ocean. Measuring about 1.5 km in length, this coral island is surrounded by a narrow reef and has a central area whose highest point reaches 8 m above sea level.
Baker Island is an unincorporated territory of the United States and a National Wildlife Refuge, visited by more than a dozen species of seabirds and shorebirds, as well as threatened and endangered sea turtles.