What the records say
- When
- 1898
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Wake Island
- Coordinates
- 19.30° N, 166.63° E
- Process
- annexation
- Type
- Annexation (unilateral)
- Area km2
- 8
- Gaining
- United States
- Cow number
- 365
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Wake Island
Pacific island administered by the United States
Wake Island, also known as Wake Atoll, is a coral atoll which is an unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the Pacific Ocean. The atoll is composed of three islets – Wake, Wilkes, and Peale Islands – surrounding a lagoon encircled by a coral reef. The nearest inhabited island is Utirik Atoll in the Marshall Islands, located 592 miles to the southeast.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation