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(also known as Wake Atoll)
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-“Wake Island” is a coral atoll located in the western ‘Pacific Ocean’ in the northeastern area of the ‘Micronesia’ subregion-
1,501 miles (2,416 kilometers) east of ‘Guam’,
2,298 miles (3,698 kilometers) west of ‘Honolulu’,
and 1,991 miles (3,204 kilometers) southeast of ‘Tokyo’
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(the island is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the ‘United States Minor Outlying Islands’ that is also claimed by the ‘Marshall Islands’)
(‘Wake Island’ is one of the most isolated islands in the world and the nearest inhabited island is ‘Utirik Atoll’ in the ‘Marshall Islands’, 592 miles (953 kilometers) to the southeast)
(‘Wake Island’ is administered by the ‘United States Air Force’, under an agreement with the ‘Department of the Interior’)
(the center of activity on the atoll is at ‘Wake Island Airfield’ (IATA: AWK, ICAO: PWAK) which is primarily used as a mid-Pacific refueling stop for military aircraft and as an emergency landing area)
(the 9,800-foot (3,000 m) runway is the longest strategic runway in the ‘Pacific islands’)
(located south of the runway is the ‘Wake Island Launch Center’, a missile launch site of the ‘Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site’ operated by the ‘United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command’ and the ‘Missile Defense Agency’)
(the ‘Base Operations Support’ contractor at Wake is ‘Chugach Alaska Corporation’)
(about 94 people live on the island, and access to it is restricted)
(on 11 december 1941, ‘Wake Island’ was the site of Japan’s first unsuccessful attack on American forces during ‘World War II’ when Marines, Naval personnel, and civilians on the island repelled an attempted Japanese invasion, sinking 2 destroyers and a transport)
(the island fell to Japanese forces, however, 12 days later in a second attack, this one with extensive support from Japanese carrier-based aircraft returning from the attack on ‘Pearl Harbor’)
(‘Wake Island’ remained occupied by Japanese forces until the end of the war)
(the submerged and emergent lands at the atoll are a unit of the ‘Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument’)
(for statistical purposes, ‘Wake Island’ is grouped as one of the ‘United States Minor Outlying Islands’ (UM-79) by the ‘International Organization for Standardization’ (ISO 3166))
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