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Wake Island (possession) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 19 18 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 19.3000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 166 36 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 166.6000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Coral atoll comprising 3 islets; arid & was uninhabited when sighted by Spaniard Mendaña in 1568; visited by William Wake in 1796, by Charles Wilkes & naturalist Peale in 1841; controlled by US Air Force since 1972. |
Names: |
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| Wake Island (preferred,C,V,English)
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| Wake Island (Norwegian)
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| Wake Island (Danish)
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| Wake Islands (C,V)
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............ | named for Captain Wake, 19th cen. |
| WQ (C,V,FIPS)
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| Berry (C,U)
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| Disclerta (C,U)
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| Enen-Kio (C,U)
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| Enenkio Atoll (C,U)
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| Ila Vake (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Île Wake (C,U,French)
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| Ilha Wake (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Illa Wake (C,U,Galician)
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| Illes Wake (C,U,Catalan)
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| Isla Wake (C,U,Spanish)
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| Isola di Wake (C,U,Italian)
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| Jeroboam (C,U)
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| Lamira (C,U)
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| Mendana (C,U)
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| Moccasin (C,U)
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| Otok Wake (C,U)
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| Otori-Shima (C,U)
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| Pulau Wake (C,U,Indonesian)
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| San Francisco Island (C,U)
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| Tori Jima (C,U)
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| Varsímaeyja (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Veika sala (C,U,Latvian)
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| Vejkinsulo (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Wake (C,U,Estonian)
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| Wake (Swedish)
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| Wake (Czech)
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| Wake (German)
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| Wake (Polish)
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| Wake (Slovak)
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| Wake Adası (C,U,Turkish)
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| Wake Atoll (C,U)
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| Wake-eiland (C,U,Dutch)
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| Wake Gruppe (C,U)
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| Wakensaari (C,U,Finnish)
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| Wakers Island (C,U)
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| Wake's Atoll (C,U)
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| Wakes Island (C,U)
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| Wake's Island (C,U)
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| Wake-sziget (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Weeks Island (C,U)
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| Wilson Island (C,U)
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| Wreck Island (C,U)
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| 威克島 (C,U,Chinese)
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| וייק (C,U,Hebrew )
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| 웨이크 섬 (C,U,Korean)
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| ウェーク島 (C,U,Japanese)
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| เกาะเวก (C,U,Thai)
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| Атолл Уэйк (C,U,Russian)
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| Уейк (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| Halcyon Island (H,V)
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| Helsion Island (H,V)
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Place Types: |
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| possession (preferred, C) |
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claimed by the USA in 1899 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| first level subdivision (C) |
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| unincorporated territory (C) |
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| atoll (C) |
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