Wake Island - References

Site Type Keywords
Water-Related • Shipwreck

Other Keywords
United States Air Force • 11th Air Force • 611th Civil Engineer Squadron • 611th • Pacific Air Forces • 611th Air Support Group • Magazine • Historical Account • Historic Context • Early Settlers

Culture Keywords
Historic • Euroamerican • Spanish

Investigation Types
Heritage Management • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Historic Background Research • Environment Research • Reconnaissance / Survey • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan • Site Evaluation / Testing

Material Types
Whale • Whale Oil

Temporal Keywords
World War II • Historic

Geographic Keywords
Wake Island • Wake Island (Country) • Alaska (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • Midway Islands (Country) • Asia (Continent) • Oceania (Continent) • Wake I. (State / Territory) • Hawaii (State / Territory) • Midway Is. (State / Territory)

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Executive Order 3284: Delegation of Management Responsibility for the Pacific Remote Island Marine National Monument, Rose Atoll Marine National Monument and the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Dirk Kempthorne.
This document includes correspondence from the Secretary of Interior regarding the information on Executive Order 3284 passed on January 6, 2009 in which the president issued Presidential Proclamations 8335, 8336, and 8337 (Proclamations), which collectively established the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, Rose Atoll Marine National Monument, and the Marianas Trench National Monument (Monuments). For each of the areas subject to this delegation, the Director of the Service shall...
Japanese Economic Exploitation of Central Pacific Seabird Populations, 1898-1915 (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Dirk H. R. Spennermann.
At the turn of the century, Japanese feather and plumage hunters visited most of the isolated, uninhabited atolls of the central Pacific Ocean. The seabird populations of these atolls were decimated to supply exotic feathers for the millinery market to meet an increasing demand created by the European fashion industry. Drawing on scattered archival records, this article reviews the history and dimensions of the feather trade in the Central Pacific and describes the responses of the affected...
Marine Toxins From the Pacific II: The Contamination of Wake Island Lagoon (1969)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Albert H. Banner. Judd C. Nevenzel. Webster R. Hudgins.
A study and historical account of the contamination at Wake Island Lagoon on June 20, 1965.
Proclamation 8336 of January 6,2009 Establishment of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine Nation Document (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Executive Office of the President.
Proclamation 8336 mandated by the president of the United States which established the Pacific Remote Islands, including Wake Island, as Marine National Monuments.
What Happened at the Wake (1942)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald Wihelm.
A historical account of the attack on Wake Island from the American Legion Magazine.
The Wreck of the Libelle and other Early European Visitors to Wake Island (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Dirk H. R. Spennemann.
This paper details the early European history of the atoll and focuses on a shipwreck and the subsequent salvage events.