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Bibliography of Wake Island

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Bibliography of Wake Island

This is an English language bibliography of Wake Island and its geography, history, inhabitants, culture, biota, etc.

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Wake Island (/ˈweɪk/; also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19 km) in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu 2,300 statute miles (3,700 km) west to Guam 1,510 statute miles (2,430 km) east.

Natural history

  • Bryan, E. H. Jr. (1959). "Notes on the geography and natural history of Wake Island." (PDF). Atoll Research Bulletin. 66. 
  • Daniel, Hawthorn (1943). "Wake Island". Islands of the Pacific. 
  • Grothe, P.R.; et al. (2010). Digital Elevation Models of Wake Island: Procedures, Data Sources and Analysis. Boulder, Colo: National Geophysical Data Center, Marine Geology and Geophysics Division. 
  • Wetmore, Alexander (1996). "Wake Island and Wake Island Rail In: Olson, Storrs L., History and Ornithological Journals of the Tanager Expedition of 1923 to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Johnston and Wake Islands" (PDF). Atoll Research Bulletin. 433: 103–115, 184. doi:10.5479/si.00775630.433.1. 

    • Military histories

  • Cressman, Robert J. (2005). A Magnificent Fight: The Battle for Wake Island. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-140-8. 
  • Cunningham, Chet (2002). Hell Wouldn't Stop: An Oral History of the Battle of Wake Island. Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-1096-9. 
  • Cunningham, W. Scott; Lydel Sims (1961). Wake Island Command. Little, Brown. 
  • Devereux, James P. S. (1997). The Story of Wake Island. Battery Press. ISBN 0-89839-264-0. 
  • Moran, Jim (2011). Wake Island 1941; A battle to make the gods weep. Peter Dennis (illustrator). Osprey Campaign Series #144; Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84908-603-5. 
  • Urwin, Gregory J. W. (1997). Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-4555-6. 
  • Wukovits, John (2003). Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island. NAL Trade. ISBN 0-451-20873-0. 

    • References

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