best places to visit in the wake islands
Battle of Wake Island
The Battle of Wake Island was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on Wake Island. It began simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor Naval and Air bases in Hawaii and ended with the surrender of American forces to the Empire of Japan.
98 Rock is a worth-visiting memorial that is built and maintained in the memory of the 98 U.S. Prisoners of War. These US prisoners were forced to recreate the airstrip by the Japanese captors and then they were killed in 1943. One of the prisoners escaped and scratched “98 US PW 5-10-43” on a huge coral rock on the island. The rock large rock still bears the original inscription.
Wake Island
The Wake Island coral atoll, with its surrounding marine waters, has been recognized as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International for its sooty tern colony.
Therefore, for anyone fond of watching various kinds of bird species, Wake Island is a great location. You can find here numerous beautiful birds flying in the sky. Some of the common birds here are albatrosses, terns, snipe, one of the species of railbird, shorebirds, boobies, shearwaters, frigates, and tropicbirds.
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AFRICA
There are 54 countries in Africa – and 9 dependent territories. More than 1.3 billion people live on the African continent. This means about 15% of the world’s total population live in Africa! Even though Nigeria is only a third of the size of Algeria, it is the most populous country in Africa, with more than 219 million people.
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OCEANIA
Oceania is in a continental group consisting of 14 countries and includes Pacific islands and Australia. Often Australia is named as a continent, but this means that the many islands and countries except Australia would then be not included. Oceania in fact is mostly ocean and spans a vast area as you can see below.
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