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Latest revision as of 03:43, 7 April 2012
Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu, Hawaii (2,300 statute miles or 3,700 km west) to Guam (1,510 miles or 2,430 km east).
It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, US Department of the Interior.
Access to the island is restricted, and all current activities on the island are managed by the United States Air Force. There is also a missile facility operated by the United States Army. The largest island (Wake Island) is the center of activity on the atoll and has a 9,800 foot (3,000 m) runway.
For statistical purposes, Wake is grouped as one of the US Minor Outlying Islands.
For more details see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Island
In theory Wake Island belongs to Micronesia but we tend not to include uninhabited islands in the "smaller" supraregion categories. Nor does it deserve its own category