Wake Island 4.73

Wake Island is a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean in the northeastern area of the Micronesia subregion, 1,501mi east of Guam, 2,298mi west of Honolulu and 1,991mi southeast of Tokyo. The island is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States Minor Outlying Islands that is also claimed by the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Wake Island is one of the most isolated islands in the world and the nearest inhabited island is Utirik Atoll in the Marshall Islands, 592mi to the southeast.Wake Island is administered by the United States Air Force, under an agreement with the U.S. Department of the Interior. The center of activity on the atoll is at Wake Island Airfield which is primarily used as a mid-Pacific refueling stop for military aircraft and as an emergency landing area. The 9800ft runway is the longest strategic runway in the Pacific islands. South of the runway is the Wake Island Launch Center, a missile launch site of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site operated by the United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command and the Missile Defense Agency. The Base Operations Support contractor at Wake is Chugach Federal Solutions, Inc. About 94 people live on the island, and access to it is restricted. Population fluctuates depending on operations being conducted by missile defense agency activities.