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Wake Island Airfield

Wake Island Airfield is a military air base located on , which is known for the Battle of Wake Island during World War II. It is owned by the U.S.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States of America
  • Also known as: “AWK”, “PWAK”, and “Wake Island Airport”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Peale Island and Wilkes Island.

Island
Photo: jafer24, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is one of three islands in the atoll, which lies in the Pacific Ocean between and . The atoll was, from 1935, the site of a seaplane base and a hotel built by Pan-American, who started the first transpacific passenger service using a string of islands across the Pacific to fly between America and Asia in stages.

Island
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is a small islet that is part of the , a remote atoll in the Pacific. The island is cut in half by a partially completed World War II submarine channel, and the eastern half is connected to Wake Island by a causeway.

Wake Island Airfield

Latitude
19.28337° or 19° 17′ 0″ north
Longitude
166.63645° or 166° 38′ 11″ east
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Inception
1939
Operator
American Navy
IATA airport code
AWK
ICAO airport code
PWAK
United Nations Location Code
UM AWK
Open location code
7VF87JMP+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 530870251
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Open­Street­Map feature
military=­airfield
Geo­Names ID
4041686
Wiki­data ID
Q7960943
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Satellite Map

Discover Wake Island Airfield from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Tajik—“Wake Island Airfield” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Aeródromu de la Islla Wake”
  • Cebuano: “Wake Island Airfield”
  • Chinese: “威克岛机场”
  • Chinese: “威克島機場”
  • Chinese: “威克島飛行場”
  • Czech: “Letiště Wake Island”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مطار جزيره ويك”
  • French: “aérodrome de Wake Island”
  • French: “Aérodrome de Wake Island”
  • French: “AWK”
  • German: “Flugplatz Wake Island”
  • Indonesian: “AWK”
  • Indonesian: “PWAK”
  • Japanese: “ウェーク・アイランド飛行場”
  • Japanese: “ウェーク島飛行場”
  • Latvian: “Veika salas lidlauks”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Wake I”
  • Persian: “AWK”
  • Persian: “PWAK”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه ویک آیلند”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه ویک ایلند”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Wake”
  • Spanish: “Aerodromo de la Isla Wake”
  • Spanish: “Aeródromo de la Isla Wake”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи ваяк оилнд”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as United States of America (Minor Outlying Islands), Wake Island (Disputed area USA-MARSHALL ISLANDS).

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