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Wake Island er en atoll i Stillehavet, omtrent 3400 km vest for Hawaii. Territoriet har tidligere vært kalt Halcyon Island. [1] Atollen er administrert av USAs innenriksdepartement som et uorganisert, uinnlemmet oversjøisk territorium, og inngår blant USAs ytre småøyer. Territoriet har et totalareal på 7,4 km² og har 150 innbyggere i ...
Wake Island was held by Japan until September 1945. Postwar service Map of Wake Island. In 1950, Wake Island was a stop on Pan Am's round-the-world service between San Francisco and New York City, with the airline operating double-decker Boeing 377 Stratocruiser propliners into the airfield.
Wake Island. Wake Island, atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, about 2,300 miles (3,700 km) west of Honolulu. It is an unincorporated territory of the United States and comprises three low-lying coral islets (Wilkes, Peale, and Wake) that rise from an underwater volcano to 21 feet (6 metres) above sea level and are linked by causeways.
Peale Island. Looking east across Peale Island. On the northern end of Peale Island, relics from World War II including an 8-inch naval gun and concrete pillbox. Peale Island is one of three islands in the Wake Island atoll, which lies in the Pacific Ocean between Guam and Midway. The atoll was from 1935 the site of a seaplane base and a hotel ...
Wake Island is a 1942 American action drama war film directed by John Farrow, written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton, and William Bendix. The film tells the story of the United States military garrison on Wake Island and the onslaught by the Japanese ...
Øerne er mest kendt for den japanske besættelse i 1941–1945 og slaget ved Wake Island den 8.–23. december 1941 under Stillehavskrigen. I dag er Wake Island mest anvendt som et militært støttepunkt, militær fly- og flådebase, foruden at flyvepladsen benyttes til mellemlandinger for fly.
Wake ( Marshallees: Ānen Kio) is een atol in de noordelijke Stille Oceaan, ongeveer op twee derde tussen Hawaï en de Noordelijke Marianen in het noordoosten van de regio die Micronesië wordt genoemd. Het is een van de meest geïsoleerd liggende eilanden van de wereld. Het meest nabijgelegen bewoonde eiland is het atol Utrik dat in de ...
