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4 days ago · Midway Islands, unincorporated territory of the United States in the central Pacific Ocean, 1,300 miles (2,100 km) northwest of Honolulu. Near the western end of the Hawaiian archipelago, it comprises a coral atoll with a circumference of 15 miles (24 km) enclosing two main islands— Eastern (Green) and Sand islands.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · Battle of Midway. / 30°N 178°W / 30; -178. The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan 's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
5 days ago · American Samoa includes the inhabited islands of Tutuila, Tau, Olosega, Ofu, and Aunuu, along with an uninhabited coral atoll named Rose Atoll. Swains Island , an inhabited coral atoll, about 280 miles (450 km) northwest of Tutuila and physiographically separate from the archipelago, was made a part of American Samoa in 1925.
2 days ago · Tuvalu (/ t uː ˈ v ɑː l uː / ⓘ too-VAH-loo), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia.
1 day ago · Mr. Custer said he looks forward to the event every year, participating now as the school principal while also recalling being a part of the event when he was a student at the Tisbury school. “I appreciate sincerely what it means to the community, the town, the Island and certainly our veterans,” he said.
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2 days ago · The atolls and islands form two groups: the Ratak (sunrise) and the Ralik (sunset). The two island chains lie approximately parallel to one another, running northwest to southeast, comprising about 750,000 square miles (1,900,000 km 2) of ocean but only about 70 square miles (180 km 2) of land mass. Each includes 15 to 18 islands and atolls.
5 days ago · The 14 US territories include American Samoa, Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the US Virgin Islands, and various other minor outlying islands. Is Bermuda a U.S. territory? No, Bermuda is not a U.S. territory.
