Looking North-west over Wilkes Island, which has almost been split by the old, partially completed submarine channel.The Tanager Expedition's tent camp on Wilkes Island in 1923The SS North Haven unloads supplies for the Pan-American seaplane airport in the 1930sJapanese landing on Wilkes in the battle for Wake IslandThe Marine counter-attack to the landing
Wilkes Island is a small islet that is part of the Wake Island, a remote atoll in the Pacific. The island is cut in half by a partially completed WW2 submarine channel, and the eastern half is connected to Wake Island by a causeway. The western half is mostly trees and nature, except for mowed grassy area for seabirds, while the eastern half has facilities for the Wake island base. On the north side of Wilkes is the shallow lagoon of the atoll, and across to the north side is Peale Island and the northern hook of the main Wake island. The south side of Wilkes is coral beach with rocky coral fragments; the waves crash on the coral reef the rings the atoll, a short distance from the southern shore of Wilkes.
break is Wilkes channel between Wake and Wilkes. WilkesIsland was named during the Tanager Expedition for the U.S. Naval officer Charles Wilkes, who led...
Peale Island, which was home to the old Pan American hotel and seaplane base, and in the southwest is WilkesIsland. Wake Island is connected to Wilkes via...
fought on and around the atoll formed by Wake Island and its minor islets of Peale and WilkesIslands by the air, land, and naval forces of the Japanese...
Wilkes Booth was born in a four-room log house on May 10, 1838, the ninth of ten children. He was named after English radical politician John Wilkes,...
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is a water-taxi that runs between the island and Anacortes. The name was given by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838–1842, in honor of...
the Wilkes Expedition of 1838–1842. Wilkes had named Orcas Island "Hull Island" after Commodore Isaac Hull. Other features of Orcas IslandWilkes named...
workers ashore was at nearby WilkesIsland; however, the chief engineer of the expedition, Charles R. Russell, determined that Wilkes was too low and at times...
The island was named by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838–1842. One of the few names given by Wilkes that does not honor either members...
Wilkes. As a result, Wilkes' names are common in Puget Sound and Spanish names are rare, while the opposite is true for the San Juan and Gulf Islands...
for short, or the Wilkes Expedition in honor of its next appointed commanding officer, United States Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes. The expedition was...
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American Airways (PAA) construction workers use a barge to lighter building materials from the SS North Haven to the dock at WilkesIsland, Wake Atoll....
Blanchet remained on the island for nearly a year and guided the inhabitants in building a new log church. Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, commander of the United...
deposited by glacial activity in the past. Spieden Island was named by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838–1842, to honor William Spieden...
Company, who greeted Wilkes upon the arrival of the United States Exploring Expedition at Fort Nisqually in southern Puget Sound. Wilkes’ misspelling was...
Francisco de Eliza. Charles Wilkes discovered that it was an island rather than part of the mainland. He named it Perry Island in honor of Oliver Hazard...
bird on the Pacific atoll of Wake. It was found on the islands of Wake and Wilkes, and Peale, which is separated from the others by a channel of about 100...
Flattop Island is an island in the San Juan Islands of the U.S. state of Washington. The name was given by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition...
Sound and just south of Blakely Island across Thatcher Pass. Named by the Wilkes Expedition in 1841 for naval officer Stephen Decatur, it is 3.524 square...
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