Lord Howe may refer to:

  • Earl Howe (also Viscount Howe and Baron Howe), a peerage title in the United Kingdom, including:
  • Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726–1799), Admiral of the Fleet
  • Geoffrey Howe (1926–2015), later Baron Howe of Aberavon, the longest-serving British cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher

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 are 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 Monster, a fictional creature fought by Godzilla
  • Lord Howe, a Scilly packet in service between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly