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- @node Header (Wake Island)
- @section Header (Wake Island)
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- @display
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- Affiliation:
- (territory of the US)
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- @end display
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- @node Geography (Wake Island)
- @section Geography (Wake Island)
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- @display
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- Location:
- in the North Pacific Ocean, 3,700 km west of Honolulu, about two-thirds of
- the way between Hawaii and the Northern Mariana Islands
- Map references:
- Oceania
- Area:
- total area:
- 6.5 km2
- land area:
- 6.5 km2 comparative area:
- about 11 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
- Land boundaries:
- 0 km
- Coastline:
- 19.3 km
- Maritime claims:
- contiguous zone:
- 24 nm
- continental shelf:
- 200 m or depth of exploitation
- exclusive economic zone:
- 200 nm
- territorial sea:
- 12 nm
- International disputes:
- claimed by the Republic of the Marshall Islands
- Climate:
- tropical
- Terrain:
- atoll of three coral islands built up on an underwater volcano; central
- lagoon is former crater, islands are part of the rim; average elevation less
- than 4 meters
- Natural resources:
- none
- Land use:
- arable land:
- 0%
- permanent crops:
- 0%
- meadows and pastures:
- 0%
- forest and woodland:
- 0%
- other:
- 100%
- Irrigated land:
- 0 km2
- Environment:
- subject to occasional typhoons
- Note:
- strategic location in the North Pacific Ocean; emergency landing location
- for transpacific flights
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- @end display
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- @node People (Wake Island)
- @section People (Wake Island)
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- @display
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- Population:
- no indigenous inhabitants; note - there are 302 US Air Force personnel,
- civilian weather service personnel, and US and Thai contractors; population
- peaked about 1970 with over 1,600 persons during the Vietnam conflict
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- @end display
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- @node Government (Wake Island)
- @section Government (Wake Island)
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- @display
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- Names:
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Wake Island
- Digraph:
- WQ
- Type:
- unincorporated territory of the US administered by the US Air Force (under
- an agreement with the US Department of Interior) since 24 June 1972
- Capital:
- none; administered from Washington, DC
- Independence:
- none (territory of the US)
- Flag:
- the US flag is used
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- @end display
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- @node Economy (Wake Island)
- @section Economy (Wake Island)
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- @display
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- Overview:
- Economic activity is limited to providing services to US military personnel
- and contractors located on the island. All food and manufactured goods must
- be imported.
- Electricity:
- supplied by US military
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- @end display
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- @node Communications (Wake Island)
- @section Communications (Wake Island)
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- @display
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- Ports:
- none; because of the reefs, there are only two offshore anchorages for large
- ships
- Airports:
- total:
- 1
- usable:
- 1
- with permanent-surface runways:
- 1
- with runways over 3,659 m:
- 0
- with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
- 1
- with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
- 0
- Telecommunications:
- underwater cables to Guam and through Midway to Honolulu; 1 Autovon circuit
- off the Overseas Telephone System (OTS); Armed Forces Radio/Television
- Service (AFRTS) radio and television service provided by satellite;
- broadcast stations - 1 AM, no FM, no TV
- Note:
- formerly an important commercial aviation base, now used only by US military
- and some commercial cargo planes
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- @end display
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- @node Defense Forces (Wake Island)
- @section Defense Forces (Wake Island)
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- @display
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- defense is the responsibility of the US
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- @end display
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