Today Wake Atoll serves as a refueling and emergency landing station for trans-pacific flights. Receiving only one civilian aircraft every two weeks, the station serves mostly military purposes.
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Access to Wake Atoll is strictly regulated, and an unauthorized visit without proper permission is firmly prohibited. One may contact the atoll's administration directly by telephone at (808) 424-2222 or (808) 424-2101. Although located in Wake, these two numbers are in the Pearl Harbor (Honolulu, Hawaii) exchange.
Wake Island has two wonderful swimming areas surrounded by soft, sandy beaches for everyone to enjoy! They are a great place to relax, gather with friends and family and watch the AQUA PARK and other aquatic activities. The swimming beaches are not a timed activity, so feel free to use them until they close each day.
Urwin Collection. By December 4, 1941, the atoll's American garrison numbered only 524 officers and men— 449 Marines, 69 sailors, and a six-man radio detachment from the US Army. Three hundred and eighty-nine Marines belonged to the Wake Island Detachment, 1st Defense Battalion.
Wake Island is an unorganized, unincorporated territory (possession) of the United States, part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior (Aaron 2008b and Aaron 2008: 1-1 ).
Wake Island (Marshallese: Anen Kio, lit. 'island of the kio flower'; also known as Wake Atoll) is a remote coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean, in the 20th century it rose to prominence as way point for Flying boats, then became a flash point in World War II, then has remained military base since that time.