Wake Island Airfield
Wake Island Airfield is a military air base located on Wake Island, which is known for the Battle of Wake Island during World War II. It is owned by the U.S.Photo: Hohum, Public domain.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States of America
- Access is restricted, only with permission.
Notable Places in the Area
Peale Island
Island
Photo: jafer24, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Peale Island is one of three islands in the Wake Island atoll, which lies in the Pacific Ocean between Guam and Midway.
Wilkes Island
Island
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Wilkes Island is a small islet that is part of the Wake Island, a remote atoll in the Pacific.
Wake Island Airfield
- Categories: airport, military facility and transportation
- Location: Wake Island, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
19.28337° or 19° 17' 0" northLongitude
166.63645° or 166° 38' 11" eastElevation
7 metres (23 feet)Inception
1939Operator
American NavyIATA airport code
AWKICAO airport code
PWAKUnited Nations Location Code
UM AWKOpen Location Code
7VF87JMP+8HOpenStreetMap ID
way 530870251OpenStreetMap Feature
aeroway=aerodromeOpenStreetMap Feature
landuse=militaryOpenStreetMap Feature
military=airfieldGeoNames ID
4041686Wikidata ID
Q7960943Wake Island Airfield Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Asturian: Aeródromu de la Islla Wake
- Cebuano: Wake Island Airfield
- Chinese: 威克岛机场
- Chinese: 威克島機場
- Chinese: 威克島飛行場
- Czech: Letiště Wake Island
- Egyptian Arabic: مطار جزيره ويك
- English: AWK
- English: PWAK
- French: AWK
- French: aérodrome de Wake Island
- German: Flugplatz Wake Island
- Indonesian: AWK
- Indonesian: PWAK
- Japanese: ウェーク・アイランド飛行場
- Japanese: ウェーク島飛行場
- Malay: Lapangan Terbang Wake I
- Persian: AWK
- Persian: PWAK
- Persian: فرودگاه ویک آیلند
- Persian: فرودگاه ویک ایلند
- Polish: Port lotniczy Wake
- Spanish: Aerodromo de la Isla Wake
- Spanish: Aeródromo de la Isla Wake
- Tajik: Фурудгоҳи ваяк оилнд
- Wake Island Airport
Localities in the Area
Landmarks in the Area
- Wake Island H.P.Peak
- PAAvillageRuins
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Wake Island Airfield. Photo: Hohum, Public domain.