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    Wake Island (Marshallese: Ānen Kio, lit. 'island of the kio flower'; also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll in the Micronesia subregion of the northwestern...
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    Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island) and one in the Caribbean Sea (Navassa...
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    Island belongs to the owners of Likiep Atoll (see there) Toke Atoll belongs to the people of Utirik Atoll Wake Atoll is disputed with the US ISO 3166-2:MH...
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    Midway Atoll (colloquial: Midway Islands; Hawaiian: Kuaihelani, lit. 'the backbone of heaven'; Pihemanu, 'the loud din of birds') is a 2.4 sq mi (6.2 km2)...
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    The extinct Wake Island rail (Hypotaenidia wakensis) was a flightless rail and the only native land bird on the Pacific atoll of Wake. It was found on...
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    Islands (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island). Crocombe noted that Easter Island, Lord Howe Island...
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    United States in North America during WWII; the Philippines, Guam and Wake Atoll (part of the Marshall Islands), Pacific territories of the United States...
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    first list of plants catalogued on Johnston Atoll was published in Vascular Plants of Johnston and Wake Islands (1931), based on collections from the...
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    American forces to the Empire of Japan. It was fought on and around the atoll formed by Wake Island and its minor islets of Peale and Wilkes Islands by the air...
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    period between 1992 and 2005. This species was extirpated from Wake Atoll, Johnston Atoll, and Minami Torishima. The Mexican population has been increasing...
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    Look up atoll in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An atoll ( /ˈæt.ɒl, -ɔːl, -oʊl, əˈtɒl, -ˈtɔːl, -ˈtoʊl/) is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim...
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  • Wake Island is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean. It may also refer to: Wake Island (film), starring Brian Donlevy USS Wake Island (CVE-65), a World War II...
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    Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island. At Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, and Palmyra Atoll, the terrestrial...
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    Johnston Atoll*, Kingman Reef*, Midway Islands*, Navassa Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palmyra Atoll*, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Wake Island (*...
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    banned in American Samoa in 2001. The waters surrounding Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, and Palmyra Atoll from the shoreline out to 50 fathoms (91 m) are protected...
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    Wilkes Island (category Wake Island)
    Wilkes Island is a small islet that is part of the Wake Island, a remote atoll in the Pacific. The island is cut in half by a partially completed WW2...
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    Peale Island (category Wake 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...
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  • of the Marshall Islands, which covers the entire country, as well as Wake Atoll (dependent on the United States). It is located in the city center. The...
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    Palmyra Atoll (/pælˈmaɪrə/), also referred to as Palmyra Island, is one of the Northern Line Islands (southeast of Kingman Reef and north of Kiribati)...
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    and seaplane bases at Dutch Harbor Alaska, Kodiak, Alaska, Midway Atoll, and Wake Island. The ship USS Wyoming (BM-10) built in 1902 was used as the...
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    This is a list of butterflies of Wake Island and the Johnston Atoll. Hypolimnas bolina rarik von Eschscholtz, 1821 W.John Tennent: A checklist of the butterflies...
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  • American Airways (PAA) construction workers use a barge to lighter building materials from the SS North Haven to the dock at Wilkes Island, Wake Atoll....
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    Minor Outlying Islands". U.S. Fish & Wildlife Department. 8 May 2023. "Wake Atoll National Wildlife Refuge US Minor Outlying Islands". U.S. Fish & Wildlife...
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    Atoll Bikar (Bikaar) Atoll Bikini Atoll Bokak Atoll Erikub Atoll Jemo Island Nadikdik Atoll Rongerik Atoll Toke Atoll Ujelang Atoll The average altitude...
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    joined Task Force 14, steaming to relieve the beleaguered defenders on Wake Atoll. The task force was recalled to Pearl Harbor on 23 December after the...
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    Enewetak Atoll (/ɛˈniːwəˌtɔːk, ˌɛnɪˈwiːtɔːk/; also spelled Eniwetok Atoll or sometimes Eniewetok; Marshallese: Ānewetak, [ænʲeːwɛːdˠɑk], or Āne-wātak,...
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    1941–42 invasion of the Philippines. Also lost were Naval Base Guam and Wake Atoll. As such, the United States Armed Forces needed new bases in the South...
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    includes rocket launch sites at the Kwajalein Atoll (on multiple islands), Wake Island, and Aur Atoll. It primarily functions as a test facility for...
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    25, 2016. "Palmyra Atoll". Office of Insular Affairs. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved July 9, 2013. "Wake Island". The World...
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    Before conversion to hybrid aircraft carriers Yamato and Musashi in Truk Atoll, 1943 Wakamiya (1913) Notoro (1920) Akitsushima Kamoi Chitose class (converted...
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