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Wilkes Island

Wilkes Island 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.
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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.

Aerodrome
Photo: Hohum, Public domain.
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.

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.

Wilkes Island

Latitude
19.29655° or 19° 17′ 48″ north
Longitude
166.60817° or 166° 36′ 29″ east
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
7VF87JW5+J7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 300144880
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
4041688
Wiki­data ID
Q32042333
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Satellite Map

Discover Wilkes Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wilkes Island”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.