Wake Island
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wake-island-190-4489057
title:
Wake Island
text:
Wake Island, also known as Wake Atoll, is a coral atoll in the Micronesia subregion of the Pacific Ocean. The atoll is composed of three islets and a reef surrounding a lagoon. The nearest inhabited island is Utirik Atoll in the Marshall Islands, located 592 miles to the southeast. The island may have been found by prehistoric Austronesian mariners before its first recorded discovery by Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira in 1568. Ships continued to visit the area in the following centuries until it was
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Pacific island administered by the United States, claimed by the Marshall Islands
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Island
date created:
2002-02-25T15:51:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T19:55:30Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Wake_Island_NASA_photo_map.jpg","width":1600,"height":1200}
fields total:
13
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16