Wilkes 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 World War II submarine channel, and the eastern half is connected to Wake Island by a causeway.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: minor islet of Wake Island
- Also known as: “Ashi-Shima”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wake Island Airfield and Peale Island.
Wake Island Airfield
Aerodrome
Photo: Hohum, Public domain.
Wake Island Airfield is a U.S military air base located on Wake Island, which is known for the Battle of Wake Island during World War II. It is owned by the U.S. Wake Island Airfield is situated 3 km southeast of Wilkes Island.
Peale Island
Island
Photo: jafer24, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Peale 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 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.
Wilkes Island
- Categories: islet and landform
- Location: Wake Island, Micronesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Czech—“Wilkes Island” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Illa Wilkes”
- Catalan: “Wilkes Island”
- Cebuano: “Wilkes Island”
- Czech: “Ostrov Wilkes”
- Czech: “Wilkes Island”
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Highlights include Japanese Wilkes Landing Site WW2 and JP-Murder of US Civilian POWs Memorial.
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