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- <text id=93CT1526>
- <title>
- Wake Island--Communications
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- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Wake Island
- Communications</hdr><body>
- <p>Ports: none; because of the reefs, there are only two offshore
- anchorages for large ships
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Airports:</l>
- <l> total: 1</l>
- <l> usable: 1</l>
- <l> with permanent-surface runways: 1</l>
- <l> with runways over 3,659 m: 0</l>
- <l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 1</l>
- <l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 0</l>
- </list>
- <p>Telecommunications: underwater cables to Guam and through
- Midway to Honolulu; 1 Autovon circuit off the Overseas Telephone
- System (OTS); Armed Forces Radio/Television Service (AFRTS)
- radio and television service provided by satellite; broadcast
- stations - 1 AM, no FM, no TV
- </p>
- <p>Note: formerly an important commercial aviation base, now used
- only by US military and some commercial cargo planes
- </p></body></article></text>
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