QUIZ QUESTION

[Airborne]

Who can answer this?

What is this Island's name?

 

[Airborne]

I am surprised that no one answered this question.
The Island featured highly in US Military folk lore last century.

 

[ccheese]

And the island's name is ....... ?

Charles

 

[pbfoot]

Long Island

 

[Airborne]

It's not Manhattan Island either Footy. Good try though.

A lot of people have looked at it and it looks like I have caught you all.

It's the secondary airstrip on Wake Island that runs north and south.

Rising sea levels have changed things since the War.

 

[DOUGRD]

Hey Airborne look at your map and then the photo again. They don't match up. We had this identical picture posted back on 09/28 by Grampz in the personal gallery. It's actually Amata Kabua International Airport on Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands or so the thread determined.

 

[Airborne]

No Doug it's Wake believe it or not.

Here it is taken from the same direction. Look at the square bay at the top left.

Remember it is taken with a telephoto lense and secondly that the rising sea levels have wiped out a lot of the land each side of the strip.