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Wake Island (Marshallese: Δ€nen Kio, lit. 'island of the kio flower'), also known as Wake Atoll, is a coral atoll in the Micronesia subregion of the Pacific Ocean. The atoll is composed of three islets – Wake, Wilkes, and Peale Islands – surrounding a lagoon encircled by a coral reef.
Andersen Air Force Base on the northern end of the island was the U.S.'s biggest B-52 base and Naval Base Guam was a large deep-water port for naval vessels. Typhoons frequently impact Guam and the military and civilian personnel involved in Operation New Life feared that a typhoon would strike Guam while the Vietnamese were living in tents and ...
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It is separated from Wake Island by a channel which, from World War II to the 21st century, was crossed by a wooden bridge. The bridge had burned down by 2003. In 1953 the bridge between Peale and Wake Island was rebuilt. [4] Wake is one of the most remote islands on the planet, and is hundreds of miles to the nearest land.
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Wilkes Island was named during the Tanager Expedition for the U.S. Naval officer Charles Wilkes, who led a U.S. expedition to Wake Atoll in 1841. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In the 1930s, it was the site where supplies were off-loaded for the Pan-Am airways seaplane facilities, which was built on Peale Island on the other side of the Wake Lagoon.
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