Lord Howe

Lord Howe is generally used referring to the British title of Earl Howe, and has been held by several people.

Apart from that, it may also refer to the following concepts:

• Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, a former British Cabinet minister.

Geography

• Lord Howe Island, an island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Australia
• Lord Howe Atoll, also known as Ontong Java Atoll (not to be confused with Lord Howe Island)
• Lord Howe Province, a marine biogeographic region of Australia
• Lord Howe Rise, an underwater plateau in the Pacific Ocean
• Lord Howe seamount chain, a seamount chain on northern Lord howe Rise

Biology

There is a number of species endemic to Lord Howe Island whose name includes the words Lord Howe:

Birds

• Lord Howe Boobook, the extinct bird whose scientific name is Ninox novaeseelandiae albaria
• Lord Howe Currawong or Strepera graculina crissalis
• Lord Howe Fantail or Rhipidura fuliginosa cervina, extinct
• Lord Howe Gerygone or Gerygone insularis, extinct
• Lord Howe Golden Whistler or Pachycephala pectoralis contempta
• Lord Howe Morepork, another name for the Lord Howe Boobook
• Lord Howe Pigeon or Columba vitiensis godmanae, extinct
• Lord Howe Red-crowned Parakeet or Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae subflavescens, extinct
• Lord Howe Silvereye or Zosterops lateralis tephropleurus
• Lord Howe Starling or Aplonis fuscus hullianus, extinct
• Lord Howe Swamphen or Porphyrio albus, extinct
• Lord Howe Woodhen or Gallirallus sylvestris, endangered

Other species

• Lord Howe Flax Snail or Placostylus bivaricosus, an endangered snail
• Lord Howe Island butterflyfish or Amphichaetodon howensis, a fish
• Lord Howe Island skink or Cyclodina lichenigera, a lizard
• Lord Howe Long-eared Bat or Nyctophilus howensis, an extinct or endangered bat

Other uses

• Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June, a painting by Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg
• Lord Howe Monster, a fictional creature fought by Godzilla