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Wake Island, also known as Wake Atoll, is a coral atoll which is a unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the Pacific Ocean. The atoll is composed of three islets
The "98 Rock" on Wilkes Island was carved by a World War II American civilian POW before his execution by Japanese Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara.
The VFA-27 Royal Maces, a United States Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet squadron based in MCAS Iwakuni, flies over the "Downtown" area of Wake Island.
Wake Island
Palm trees at Wake Island's lagoon
Marshall Islands
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The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an archipelagic country in Oceania. The sovereign state lies west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in t
Wake Island
…three islets – Wake, Wilkes, and Peale Islands – surrounding a lagoon encircled by a coral reef. The nearest inhabited island is Utirik Atoll in the Marshall Islands, located 592 miles (953 kilometers) to the southeast. The island may have been found by prehistoric Austronesian mariners before its first recorded…
Marshall Islanders sailing, with sails brailed (reefed), c. 1899–1900
A Marshallese stick chart. Most were made from a grid of coconut frond midribs with small shells representing the relative location of islands.
Manila Galleon in the Marianas and Carolines, c. 1590 Boxer Codex
Offices of the Pacific Navigation Co. at Jaluit Atoll in the late 1880s