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{{Outlying Island| name = Wake Island| map = | flag = | locate = | locale = United States| island_type = Coral| discovered by = [Álvaro de Mendaña de Neyra ETM+ satellite image of Wake Island.Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a [coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu (2,300 statute miles or 3,700 km west) to Guam (1,510 miles or 2,430 km east). It is an unorganized territory, unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior. Access to the island is restricted, and all current activities on the island are managed by the United States Air Force and the United States Army. The largest island (Wake Island) is the center of activity on the atoll and features a 9,800 foot (3,000 m) runway.

For statistics purposes, Wake is grouped as one of the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

Geography Wake is located to the west of the International date line and is one day ahead of the U.S. state.

Although Wake is officially called an island in the singular form, it is actually an atoll comprising three islands (Wake, Wilkes, and Peale) surrounding a central lagoon. Referring to the atoll as an island is the result of a pre-World War II desire by the United States Navy to distinguish Wake from other atolls, most of which were Japanese territory.



Environment Climate Wake Island lies in the tropics zone but is subject to periodic temperate storms during the winter. Sea surface temperatures are warm all year long, reaching above 80 Fahrenheit (26.7 Celsius) in summer and fall. tropical cyclones occasionally pass over the island.

Typhoon Ioke On August 28, 2006, the United States Air Force evacuated all 188 residents and suspended all operations as category 5 Typhoon Ioke headed toward Wake. By August 31, the southwestern eyewall of the storm passed over the island, with winds well over 185 miles per hour (300 km/h),http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,211537,00.html driving a 20 ft (6m) storm surge and waves directly into the lagoon inflicting major damage.http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-08-31-voa11.cfm A US Air Force assessment and repair team returned to the island in September 2006 and restored limited function to the airfield and facilities leading ultimately to a full return to normal operations.

Flora and fauna The flightless Wake Island Rail was the island's only known native land bird. It became extinction when the Japanese garrison, cut off from resupply in 1944-45, turned to hunting and fishing to avoid starvation.

History .

Pre-European discovery Some scant Indigenous peoples of Oceania Marshallese oral tradition suggests that prior to European exploration, nearby Marshall Islands traveled to what is now Wake Island, which the travelers called Enen-kio after a small orange shrubs-flower said to have been found on the atoll. In ancient Marshallese religion, rituals surrounding the tattoos of tribal chiefs, called Iroijlaplap, were done using certain fresh human bones, which required a human sacrifice. A man could save himself from being sacrificed if he obtained a wing bone from a certain very large seabird said to have existed on Enen-kio. Small groups would therefore brave traveling to the atoll in hope of obtaining and returning with this bone, thus saving the life of the potential human sacrifice.http://www.enenkio.org/adobe/Kio_Island.pdf

Based upon this oral traditionhttp://www.enenkio.org/intro.htm#reference1 along with concepts of first-usage lands rights claims commonly held in Micronesian cultures as legitimate for settling Aboriginal land claims, Land disputeshttp://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/alrc/publications/reform/reform80/07.rtfhttp://www.forumsec.org.fj/docs/FEMM/2002/femv06.pdf#search=%22land%20disputes%20first%20usage%20micronesia%22 a small Separatism of Marshall Island descendents who call themselves the Kingdom of EnenKio lay claim to Wake Island. The Marshall Islands and U.S. governments, who also have competing claims over the island, vigorously deny the claim.http://www.angelfire.com/nv/micronations/themes/main/images/marshall2b.jpg No evidence suggests there was ever a permanent village of Marshall Islanders on Wake Island.http://www.enenkio.org/adobe/Kio_Island.pdf

European discovery and exploration On October 20, 1568, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neyra, a Spanish explorer with two ships, Los Reyes and Todos Santos, discovered "a low barren island, judged to be eight League (unit) in circumference," to which he gave the name of "San Francisco." The island was eventually named for Captain William Wake, master of the Kingdom of Great Britain trading schooner, Prince William Henry, who visited in 1796.http://www.janeresture.com/wake/index.htm

Jeremiah N. Reynolds 1828 report to the United States House of Representatives describes Gardner (whaling family)#Edward Gardner discovery of a 25-mile long island situated at 19°15' N, 166°32' E, with a reef at the eastern edge, while captaining the Bellona in 1823. The island was "covered with wood, having a very green and rural appearance" and was probably, Reynolds concludes, Wake Island, placed on charts of the time by John Arrowsmith. Reynold's Report to the House of Representatives

On December 20, 1840, the United States Exploring Expedition commanded by Commodore (USN) Charles Wilkes of the U.S. Navy, landed on and surveyed Wake. Wilkes described the atoll as "a low coral one, of triangular form and eight feet above the surface. It has a large lagoon in the centre, which was well filled with fish of a variety of species among these were some fine mullet (fish)." He also noted that Wake had no fresh water and that it was covered with shrubs, "the most abundant of which was the tournefortia." The expedition's natural history, Titian Peale, collected many new specimens, including an egg (biology) from a short-tailed albatross and various marine life specimens.

Wreck of the Libelle Wake Island first received international attention with the shipwreck of the Libelle. On the night of March 4, 1866, the 650 ton barque Libelle of Bremen (city), Germany, struck the eastern reef of Wake Island during a gale. The ship was under the command of Captain Tobias and en route from San Francisco to Hong Kong. Among its passengers were opera singer Anna Bishop (ex wife of the celebrated French harpist Nicolas Bochsa), her husband Martin Schultz (a New York City diamond merchant), and three other members of an English opera troupe.

After 21 days, the 30 stranded passengers and crew set sail in a longboat and a Captain's Gig for the then Spanish island of Guam. The longboat, containing the opera troupe, Mr. Schultz and other passengers, arrived on Guam April 8. The gig, commanded by the Libelle’s captain, was lost at sea. While stranded on Wake Island, Captain Tobias had buried valuable cargo including 1,000 flasks (34,500 kg) of mercury (element), coins and precious stones worth approximately United States dollar150,000, and at least five ships conducted salvage operations in their recovery. The plight of the Libelle, its passengers and cargo was reported by many newspapers.

American possession Wake Island was annexed by the United States (empty territory) on January 17, 1899. In 1935, Pan American Airways constructed a small village, nicknamed "PAAville", to service flights on its U.S.-China route. The village was the first human settlement on the island and relied upon the U.S. mainland for its food and water supplies; it remained in operation up to the day of the first Japanese air raid.

Military buildup In January 1941, the United States Navy constructed a military base on the atoll. On August 19, the first permanent military garrison, elements of the 1st Marine Defense Battalion,http://www.nps.gov/wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003133-00/sec15.htm totaling 449 officers and men, were stationed on the island, commanded by Navy Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham. Also on the island were 68 U.S. Naval personnel and about 1,221 civilian workers.

They were armed with six used 5 inch/51 cal (127 mm) cannons, removed from a Ship breaking cruiser; twelve 3 inch/50 cal (76.2 mm) M3 Anti-aircraft warfare (with only a single working anti-aircraft sight (device) among them); eighteen M2 Browning machine gun heavy machine guns; and thirty heavy, medium, and light, water or air-cooled machine guns in various conditions but all operational.

World War II {{Infobox_nrhp | name = Wake Island | nrhp_type = nhl | image = Wake island 1945 surrender.jpg | caption = The surrender of the Japanese garrison on Wake Island - September 4, [. [Shigematsu Sakaibara is the Japanese officer in the right-foreground. | location = [Pacific Ocean | nearest city = | lat_degrees = | lat_minutes = | lat_seconds = | lat_direction = | long_degrees = | long_minutes = | long_seconds = | long_direction = | area = | built = | architect = | architecture = | designated = September 16, [ | added = September 16, [ | visitation_num = | visitation_year = | refnum = 85002726 | mpsub = | governing_body = [U.S. Department of the Interior, [Office of Insular Affairs --> Battle of Wake Island On December 8, 1941, the same day as the Attack on Pearl Harbor (Wake being on the opposite side of the International Date Line), at least twenty-seven Japanese medium "Nell" bombers flown from bases on Truk in the Caroline Island group attacked Wake Island, destroying eight of the twelve F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft belonging to Marine Corps fighter squadron VMA-211 on the ground. All of the Marine garrison's defensive emplacements were left intact by the raid, which primarily targeted the aircraft.

The garrison—supplemented by civilian volunteers—repelled several Japanese landing attempts. An American journalist reported that after the initial Japanese amphibious assault was beaten back with heavy losses, the American commander was asked by his superiors if he needed anything, to which the commander sent back the message "Send us more Japs!", a reply which became a popular legend.http://usmilitary.about.com/od/marines/a/legends.htm However, when Lieutenant-Colonel Deveraux learned after the war that he was credited with that message he pointed out that he was not the commander, contrary to the reports, and denied sending that message: "As far as I know, it wasn't sent at all. None of us was that much of a damn fool. We already had more Japs than we could handle."

The garrison was eventually overwhelmed by the numerically superior Japanese invasion force. American casualties were fifty-two military personnel and approximately seventy civilians killed. Japanese losses exceeded 700 killed, with some estimates ranging as high as 1,000; in addition, the Japanese lost two destroyers, one submarine and twenty four aircraft.

In the aftermath of the battle, most of the captured civilians and military personnel were sent to POW camps in Asia, while some of the civilian laborers were pressed into service by the Japanese and tasked with improving the island's defenses. After a successful American air raid on October 5, 1943, the Japanese garrison commander Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara ordered the execution of the ninety-eight prisoners on the pretext that they were espionage. One prisoner escaped the mass execution, but was later personally beheaded by Sakaibara. After the war, Sakaibaira was tried for war crimes, found guilty, and executed at Guam; his subordinate was sentenced to life in prison.

Captain Henry T. Elrod, one of the pilots from VMF-211, was awarded the United States Medal of Honor posthumously for shooting down two Japanese Mitsubishi Zero, and many of his comrades were also highly decorated for their roles in the fighting. The Wake Island Device was created for American veterans of the battle.

Japanese occupation and surrender The Japanese-occupied island was bombed several times by American air forces; one of these raids was the first mission for future President of the United States George H.W. Bush.

On September 4, 1945, the remaining Japanese garrison surrendered to a detachment of the United States Marine Corps. In a brief ceremony, the handover of Wake was officially conducted.



Postwar On October 14 1950, the island served as a one-day meeting site between General Douglas MacArthur and President Harry S. Truman, meeting to discuss strategy for the Korean War hostilities that had broken out four months earlier.

Since 1974, the island's airstrip has been used by the U.S. military and some commercial cargo planes, as well as for emergency landings. There are over 700 landings a year on the island. There are also two offshore anchorages for large ships. On September 16, 1985, the World War II-related resources on Peale, Wilkes, and Wake Islands were designated a National Historic Landmark{{cite web]).

The United States military personnel have left, and there are no indigenous inhabitants. Wake, with an undelineated maritime boundary with them, is claimed by the Marshall Islands, and some civilian personnel ("contractor inhabitants") remain. As of 2006, an estimated 200 contractor personnel were present. The island remains a strategic location in the North Pacific Ocean and serves as an emergency landing location for transpacific flights. Some World War II facilities and wreckage remain on the islands.

Subsequently the island was used for strategic defense and operations during the Cold War. It was administered by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (formerly known as the United States Army Space and Strategic Defense Command).

Since 1974, Wake Island has served as a launch platform for military rockets involved in testing anti-missile systems and atmospheric re-entry trials. Launches take place from.

From late April until the middle of August 1975, Wake Island was used as a refugee camp for more than 8,000 Vietnamese refugees who fled their homeland after the fall of Saigon that ended the Vietnam War.

The territorial claim by the Republic of the Marshall Islands on Wake Atollhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/wq.html#Issues leaves a certain amount of ambiguity regarding the actual or hypothetical role of the U.S. military, responsible under agreement for the defence of Marshallese territory, in the event of any strategic crisis or hostilities involving Wake. However, the atoll was formally annexed by the U.S. in the 19th century and is still administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

References Notes External links

{{Outlying Island| name = Wake Island| map = | flag = | locate = | locale = United States| island_type = Coral| discovered by = [Álvaro de Mendaña de Neyra ETM+ satellite image of Wake Island.Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a [coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu (2,300 statute miles or 3,700 km west) to Guam (1,510 miles or 2,430 km east). It is an unorganized territory, unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior. Access to the island is restricted, and all current activities on the island are managed by the United States Air Force and the United States Army. The largest island (Wake Island) is the center of activity on the atoll and features a 9,800 foot (3,000 m) runway.

For statistics purposes, Wake is grouped as one of the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

Geography Wake is located to the west of the International date line and is one day ahead of the U.S. state.

Although Wake is officially called an island in the singular form, it is actually an atoll comprising three islands (Wake, Wilkes, and Peale) surrounding a central lagoon. Referring to the atoll as an island is the result of a pre-World War II desire by the United States Navy to distinguish Wake from other atolls, most of which were Japanese territory.



Environment Climate Wake Island lies in the tropics zone but is subject to periodic temperate storms during the winter. Sea surface temperatures are warm all year long, reaching above 80 Fahrenheit (26.7 Celsius) in summer and fall. tropical cyclones occasionally pass over the island.

Typhoon Ioke On August 28, 2006, the United States Air Force evacuated all 188 residents and suspended all operations as category 5 Typhoon Ioke headed toward Wake. By August 31, the southwestern eyewall of the storm passed over the island, with winds well over 185 miles per hour (300 km/h),http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,211537,00.html driving a 20 ft (6m) storm surge and waves directly into the lagoon inflicting major damage.http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-08-31-voa11.cfm A US Air Force assessment and repair team returned to the island in September 2006 and restored limited function to the airfield and facilities leading ultimately to a full return to normal operations.

Flora and fauna The flightless Wake Island Rail was the island's only known native land bird. It became extinction when the Japanese garrison, cut off from resupply in 1944-45, turned to hunting and fishing to avoid starvation.

History .

Pre-European discovery Some scant Indigenous peoples of Oceania Marshallese oral tradition suggests that prior to European exploration, nearby Marshall Islands traveled to what is now Wake Island, which the travelers called Enen-kio after a small orange shrubs-flower said to have been found on the atoll. In ancient Marshallese religion, rituals surrounding the tattoos of tribal chiefs, called Iroijlaplap, were done using certain fresh human bones, which required a human sacrifice. A man could save himself from being sacrificed if he obtained a wing bone from a certain very large seabird said to have existed on Enen-kio. Small groups would therefore brave traveling to the atoll in hope of obtaining and returning with this bone, thus saving the life of the potential human sacrifice.http://www.enenkio.org/adobe/Kio_Island.pdf

Based upon this oral traditionhttp://www.enenkio.org/intro.htm#reference1 along with concepts of first-usage lands rights claims commonly held in Micronesian cultures as legitimate for settling Aboriginal land claims, Land disputeshttp://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/alrc/publications/reform/reform80/07.rtfhttp://www.forumsec.org.fj/docs/FEMM/2002/femv06.pdf#search=%22land%20disputes%20first%20usage%20micronesia%22 a small Separatism of Marshall Island descendents who call themselves the Kingdom of EnenKio lay claim to Wake Island. The Marshall Islands and U.S. governments, who also have competing claims over the island, vigorously deny the claim.http://www.angelfire.com/nv/micronations/themes/main/images/marshall2b.jpg No evidence suggests there was ever a permanent village of Marshall Islanders on Wake Island.http://www.enenkio.org/adobe/Kio_Island.pdf

European discovery and exploration On October 20, 1568, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neyra, a Spanish explorer with two ships, Los Reyes and Todos Santos, discovered "a low barren island, judged to be eight League (unit) in circumference," to which he gave the name of "San Francisco." The island was eventually named for Captain William Wake, master of the Kingdom of Great Britain trading schooner, Prince William Henry, who visited in 1796.http://www.janeresture.com/wake/index.htm

Jeremiah N. Reynolds 1828 report to the United States House of Representatives describes Gardner (whaling family)#Edward Gardner discovery of a 25-mile long island situated at 19°15' N, 166°32' E, with a reef at the eastern edge, while captaining the Bellona in 1823. The island was "covered with wood, having a very green and rural appearance" and was probably, Reynolds concludes, Wake Island, placed on charts of the time by John Arrowsmith. Reynold's Report to the House of Representatives

On December 20, 1840, the United States Exploring Expedition commanded by Commodore (USN) Charles Wilkes of the U.S. Navy, landed on and surveyed Wake. Wilkes described the atoll as "a low coral one, of triangular form and eight feet above the surface. It has a large lagoon in the centre, which was well filled with fish of a variety of species among these were some fine mullet (fish)." He also noted that Wake had no fresh water and that it was covered with shrubs, "the most abundant of which was the tournefortia." The expedition's natural history, Titian Peale, collected many new specimens, including an egg (biology) from a short-tailed albatross and various marine life specimens.

Wreck of the Libelle Wake Island first received international attention with the shipwreck of the Libelle. On the night of March 4, 1866, the 650 ton barque Libelle of Bremen (city), Germany, struck the eastern reef of Wake Island during a gale. The ship was under the command of Captain Tobias and en route from San Francisco to Hong Kong. Among its passengers were opera singer Anna Bishop (ex wife of the celebrated French harpist Nicolas Bochsa), her husband Martin Schultz (a New York City diamond merchant), and three other members of an English opera troupe.

After 21 days, the 30 stranded passengers and crew set sail in a longboat and a Captain's Gig for the then Spanish island of Guam. The longboat, containing the opera troupe, Mr. Schultz and other passengers, arrived on Guam April 8. The gig, commanded by the Libelle’s captain, was lost at sea. While stranded on Wake Island, Captain Tobias had buried valuable cargo including 1,000 flasks (34,500 kg) of mercury (element), coins and precious stones worth approximately United States dollar150,000, and at least five ships conducted salvage operations in their recovery. The plight of the Libelle, its passengers and cargo was reported by many newspapers.

American possession Wake Island was annexed by the United States (empty territory) on January 17, 1899. In 1935, Pan American Airways constructed a small village, nicknamed "PAAville", to service flights on its U.S.-China route. The village was the first human settlement on the island and relied upon the U.S. mainland for its food and water supplies; it remained in operation up to the day of the first Japanese air raid.

Military buildup In January 1941, the United States Navy constructed a military base on the atoll. On August 19, the first permanent military garrison, elements of the 1st Marine Defense Battalion,http://www.nps.gov/wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003133-00/sec15.htm totaling 449 officers and men, were stationed on the island, commanded by Navy Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham. Also on the island were 68 U.S. Naval personnel and about 1,221 civilian workers.

They were armed with six used 5 inch/51 cal (127 mm) cannons, removed from a Ship breaking cruiser; twelve 3 inch/50 cal (76.2 mm) M3 Anti-aircraft warfare (with only a single working anti-aircraft sight (device) among them); eighteen M2 Browning machine gun heavy machine guns; and thirty heavy, medium, and light, water or air-cooled machine guns in various conditions but all operational.

World War II {{Infobox_nrhp | name = Wake Island | nrhp_type = nhl | image = Wake island 1945 surrender.jpg | caption = The surrender of the Japanese garrison on Wake Island - September 4, [. [Shigematsu Sakaibara is the Japanese officer in the right-foreground. | location = [Pacific Ocean | nearest city = | lat_degrees = | lat_minutes = | lat_seconds = | lat_direction = | long_degrees = | long_minutes = | long_seconds = | long_direction = | area = | built = | architect = | architecture = | designated = September 16, [ | added = September 16, [ | visitation_num = | visitation_year = | refnum = 85002726 | mpsub = | governing_body = [U.S. Department of the Interior, [Office of Insular Affairs --> Battle of Wake Island On December 8, 1941, the same day as the Attack on Pearl Harbor (Wake being on the opposite side of the International Date Line), at least twenty-seven Japanese medium "Nell" bombers flown from bases on Truk in the Caroline Island group attacked Wake Island, destroying eight of the twelve F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft belonging to Marine Corps fighter squadron VMA-211 on the ground. All of the Marine garrison's defensive emplacements were left intact by the raid, which primarily targeted the aircraft.

The garrison—supplemented by civilian volunteers—repelled several Japanese landing attempts. An American journalist reported that after the initial Japanese amphibious assault was beaten back with heavy losses, the American commander was asked by his superiors if he needed anything, to which the commander sent back the message "Send us more Japs!", a reply which became a popular legend.http://usmilitary.about.com/od/marines/a/legends.htm However, when Lieutenant-Colonel Deveraux learned after the war that he was credited with that message he pointed out that he was not the commander, contrary to the reports, and denied sending that message: "As far as I know, it wasn't sent at all. None of us was that much of a damn fool. We already had more Japs than we could handle."

The garrison was eventually overwhelmed by the numerically superior Japanese invasion force. American casualties were fifty-two military personnel and approximately seventy civilians killed. Japanese losses exceeded 700 killed, with some estimates ranging as high as 1,000; in addition, the Japanese lost two destroyers, one submarine and twenty four aircraft.

In the aftermath of the battle, most of the captured civilians and military personnel were sent to POW camps in Asia, while some of the civilian laborers were pressed into service by the Japanese and tasked with improving the island's defenses. After a successful American air raid on October 5, 1943, the Japanese garrison commander Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara ordered the execution of the ninety-eight prisoners on the pretext that they were espionage. One prisoner escaped the mass execution, but was later personally beheaded by Sakaibara. After the war, Sakaibaira was tried for war crimes, found guilty, and executed at Guam; his subordinate was sentenced to life in prison.

Captain Henry T. Elrod, one of the pilots from VMF-211, was awarded the United States Medal of Honor posthumously for shooting down two Japanese Mitsubishi Zero, and many of his comrades were also highly decorated for their roles in the fighting. The Wake Island Device was created for American veterans of the battle.

Japanese occupation and surrender The Japanese-occupied island was bombed several times by American air forces; one of these raids was the first mission for future President of the United States George H.W. Bush.

On September 4, 1945, the remaining Japanese garrison surrendered to a detachment of the United States Marine Corps. In a brief ceremony, the handover of Wake was officially conducted.



Postwar On October 14 1950, the island served as a one-day meeting site between General Douglas MacArthur and President Harry S. Truman, meeting to discuss strategy for the Korean War hostilities that had broken out four months earlier.

Since 1974, the island's airstrip has been used by the U.S. military and some commercial cargo planes, as well as for emergency landings. There are over 700 landings a year on the island. There are also two offshore anchorages for large ships. On September 16, 1985, the World War II-related resources on Peale, Wilkes, and Wake Islands were designated a National Historic Landmark{{cite web]).

The United States military personnel have left, and there are no indigenous inhabitants. Wake, with an undelineated maritime boundary with them, is claimed by the Marshall Islands, and some civilian personnel ("contractor inhabitants") remain. As of 2006, an estimated 200 contractor personnel were present. The island remains a strategic location in the North Pacific Ocean and serves as an emergency landing location for transpacific flights. Some World War II facilities and wreckage remain on the islands.

Subsequently the island was used for strategic defense and operations during the Cold War. It was administered by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (formerly known as the United States Army Space and Strategic Defense Command).

Since 1974, Wake Island has served as a launch platform for military rockets involved in testing anti-missile systems and atmospheric re-entry trials. Launches take place from.

From late April until the middle of August 1975, Wake Island was used as a refugee camp for more than 8,000 Vietnamese refugees who fled their homeland after the fall of Saigon that ended the Vietnam War.

The territorial claim by the Republic of the Marshall Islands on Wake Atollhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/wq.html#Issues leaves a certain amount of ambiguity regarding the actual or hypothetical role of the U.S. military, responsible under agreement for the defence of Marshallese territory, in the event of any strategic crisis or hostilities involving Wake. However, the atoll was formally annexed by the U.S. in the 19th century and is still administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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