coral atoll in the North Pacific Ocean administered by the US and also claimed by the Marshall Islands image flag image coat of arms image locator map image detail map |
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| Location | United States Minor Outlying Islands |
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| Has part(s) | - Wake Island
- Wilkes Island
- Peale Island
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| Significant event | - sighting (Prince William Henry, Samuel Wake, 1796)
- typhoon (1940)
- Typhoon Olive (1952)
- typhoon (1967 Pacific typhoon season, 1967)
- evacuation (188, 2006)
- Hurricane Ioke (2006)
- United States Exploring Expedition (USS Vincennes, 1841)
- shipwrecking (1866, Libelle)
- shipwrecking (1870, Dashing Wave)
- Battle of Wake Island
- Wake Island massacre (1943)
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19° 18′ 00″ N, 166° 38′ 00″ E |
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