Bibliography of Wake Island

This is an English language bibliography of Wake Island and its geography, history, inhabitants, culture, biota, etc.^[2]

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.

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Natural history

• Bryan, E. H. Jr. (1959). "Notes on the geography and natural history of Wake Island.". Atoll Research Bulletin 66. http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/atollresearchbulletin/issues/00066.pdf. 
• Daniel, Hawthorn (1943). "Wake Island". Islands of the Pacific. 
• Grothe, P.R. et al. (2009). Digital Elevation Models of Wake Island: Procedures, Data Sources and Analysis. Boulder, Colo: National Geophysical Data Center, Marine Geology and Geophysics Division. http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS119561. 
• 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". Atoll Research Bulletin 433: 103-115, 184. http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/arb/433/433.pdf. 

Military histories

• Cressman, Robert J. (2005). A Magnificent Fight: The Battle for Wake Island. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557501408. ^[3]
• Cunningham, Chet (2002). Hell Wouldn't Stop: An Oral History of the Battle of Wake Island. Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0786710969. ^[4]
• Cunningham, W. Scott; Lydel Sims (1961). Wake Island Command. Little, Brown. ^[5]
• Devereux, James P. S. (1997). The Story of Wake Island. Battery Press. ISBN 0898392640. ^[6][7][8]
• Moran, Jim (2011). Wake Island 1941; A battle to make the gods weep. Osprey Campaign Series #144; Osprey Publishing.. ISBN 9781849086035. 
• Urwin, Gregory J. W. (1997). Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803245556. ^[9]
• Wukovits, John (2003). Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island. NAL Trade. ISBN 0451208730. ^[10]

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