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Wake Atoll - Wake Atoll
Wake Atoll (previously known as Wake Island) is a coral atoll having a coastline about 12 miles long (19 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu (2,300 miles or 3,700 kilometers) west to ► Guam and 1,510 miles or 2,430 kilometers) east of the ► Marshall Islands. It is an unincorporated territory of the United States, currently administered by the United States Air Force under an agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior. Wake Atoll, as well as ► Baker Island, ► Howland Island, ► Jarvis Island, ► Johnston Atoll, ► Kingman Reef, ► Midway Atoll, and ► Palmyra Atoll, lies in the Pacific Ocean, south of Hawaii.
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