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Wake Island (possession)
Coordinates:
Lat: 19 18 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 19.3000 decimal degrees
Long: 166 36 00 E degrees minutes Long: 166.6000 decimal degrees
Note: Coral atoll comprising 3 islets; arid & was uninhabited when sighted by Spaniard Mendaña in 1568; visited by William Wake in 1796, by Charles Wilkes & naturalist Peale in 1841; controlled by US Air Force since 1972.
Names:
Wake Island (preferred C ,V ,English )Wake Island Norwegian )Wake Island Danish )Wake Islands (C ,V ) ............ named for Captain Wake, 19th cen. WQ (C ,V ,FIPS )Berry (C ,U )Disclerta (C ,U )Enen-Kio (C ,U )Enenkio Atoll (C ,U )Ila Vake (C ,U ,Arpitan )Île Wake (C ,U ,French )Ilha Wake (C ,U ,Portuguese )Illa Wake (C ,U ,Galician )Illes Wake (C ,U ,Catalan )Isla Wake (C ,U ,Spanish )Isola di Wake (C ,U ,Italian )Jeroboam (C ,U )Lamira (C ,U )Mendana (C ,U )Moccasin (C ,U )Otok Wake (C ,U )Otori-Shima (C ,U )Pulau Wake (C ,U ,Indonesian )San Francisco Island (C ,U )Tori Jima (C ,U )Varsímaeyja (C ,U ,Icelandic )Veika sala (C ,U ,Latvian )Vejkinsulo (C ,U ,Esperanto )Wake (C ,U ,Estonian )Wake Swedish )Wake Czech )Wake German )Wake Polish )Wake Slovak )Wake Adası (C ,U ,Turkish )Wake Atoll (C ,U )Wake-eiland (C ,U ,Dutch )Wake Gruppe (C ,U )Wakensaari (C ,U ,Finnish )Wakers Island (C ,U )Wake's Atoll (C ,U )Wakes Island (C ,U )Wake's Island (C ,U )Wake-sziget (C ,U ,Magyar (Hungarian) )Weeks Island (C ,U )Wilson Island (C ,U )Wreck Island (C ,U )威克島 (C ,U ,Chinese )וייק (C ,U ,Hebrew )웨이크 섬 (C ,U ,Korean )ウェーク島 (C ,U ,Japanese )เกาะเวก (C ,U ,Thai )Атолл Уэйк (C ,U ,Russian )Уейк (C ,U ,Bulgarian )Halcyon Island (H ,V )Helsion Island (H ,V )
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Place Types:
possession (preferred C ) ............ claimed by the USA in 1899
primary political unit (C )
first level subdivision (C )
unincorporated territory (C )
atoll (C )
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