Exploration of Wake Island's Deep Sea

Located roughly midway between Hawaiʻi and the Mariana Islands, Wake Atoll is one of the most isolated land masses on Earth. While recent scientific expeditions have explored this remote region, the vast majority of the 407,241 square kilometers surrounding Wake remain unmapped and uncharacterized, making it one of the most poorly surveyed areas under US jurisdiction. What we know as Wake Island is not one island but three: Wake, Wilkes, and Peale. Ringing a shallow lagoon on the rim of a submerged volcano, they sit more than 2,000 miles from Hawaiʻi and roughly 450 miles from the nearest land in the Marshall Islands.