Island commander

An Island Commander is an official who is put in charge of an island, or an insular entity called after an island or an archipelago called Islands.

The United States have used the title for several of their overseas insular possessions, considered too small to have a higher official such as a (Lieutenant) Governor :

Presently: Wake Island since July 4, 1898 till present

Formerly

Two of the three islands that previously had been under the two consecutive heads of the

Station Chief

afterwards):

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

as Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge.

Johnston Atoll: 1934–2003; on January 1, 2004, the island was turned over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as Johnston Atoll Wildlife Refuge

Midway Islands

June 1940 – October 31, 1996; since administered by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service as Midway Island National Wildlife Refuge

Palmyra (Cooper) Airport

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