Wake Island Airfield Map Print (AWK)

AWK PWAK Wake Island, Wake Island

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Add the digital file + $10 A JPEG of your AWK artwork at 300 dpi, matched to your selected physical print size. Print a copy for your own space or use it as wallpaper. Save it within 30 days of receiving the email link; the file is yours to keep for personal use.

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Museum-quality, 330 gsm cotton paper with pigment inks for rich color and fine detail. Ready for your own frame.
Wake Island's runways and taxiways, composed as art for anyone who has spent time at the field.
Seven colorways to suit the room. A considered gift for pilots, crew, and frequent flyers.

Description

A runway diagram map print of Wake Island Airfield (AWK), made from the airport's own layout for the place it holds in your life. Choose your colorway and your format: a fine art giclée print on cotton paper, a framed fine art print, a glossy metal print or a digital download.

Your fine art print is made to order with pigment inks on heavyweight, 100% cotton Hot Press paper, a 330 gsm sheet with a high color gamut and deep black density. The acid-free, archival-grade paper has a smooth matte surface. Supplied unframed, ready for your own frame.

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Shipping and Returns

Physical prints are made to order in 2 to 3 business days; shipping time is added on top and varies by your location and the method you choose. Standard shipping is free across the US. Orders containing only paper prints ship flat, though paper may retain a slight curl; orders with framed or metal pieces ship in separate boxes. Digital downloads are delivered by email, so there is nothing to ship.

Physical products have a 30-day money-back guarantee. Contact us within 30 days of delivery to request a refund; we may require a return before issuing it.

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Materials

Fine Art Print: pigment giclée printing on heavyweight 330 gsm (17 mil), 100% cotton Hot Press paper, on regularly calibrated giclée printers. The paper is acid-free and archival-grade, with a smooth matte surface and the high color gamut and black density that let a dark ground and fine linework keep their depth. Supplied unframed, with no added white margin, ready for your own frame.

Dimensions

Fine Art Print: 8 x 10, 16 x 20, and 24 x 30 inches.

Made like something you keep.

The field itself

This is Wake Island's own layout, the way its runways run and the taxiways thread between them, composed into a print you will want to look at every day. Not a stock template with a new name on it.

Museum-quality cotton paper

Heavyweight 330 gsm, 100% cotton Hot Press paper, acid-free and archival-grade. Its high color gamut and black density give the runways real depth, and pigment inks keep the fine detail crisp on a smooth matte surface.

Solid wood framing or glossy metal

Frame it in 1.25 inch solid wood, black, white or natural oak, with the white beveled mat, optical-grade clear acrylic and hanging wire included. Or choose glossy metal: dye sublimation into aluminum, floated about 3/4 inch off the wall on a hidden mount.

Wake Island Airfield

AWK · Wake Island, Wake Island

19.2825° N · 166.6367° E
Field elevation 23 ft

Identifier

AWK

ICAO code

PWAK

Field elevation

23ft

Runways

Magnetic variation

6°E

Runways

10/289,844 × 150 ft

Composed from published airport information and available field depictions as original wall art. Learn how AirportPrints maps take shape.

Wake Island Airfield Runway Diagram Print

Wake Island Airfield works from a single runway: 10/28, 9,844 feet long, 150 feet wide, asphalt, sitting 23 feet above sea level. The print shows that plainly. One dark bar runs on a long diagonal from the 10 threshold at upper left down to the 28 threshold at lower right, with a parallel taxiway shadowing it the whole way and the ramp and building clusters gathered at the eastern end. Nothing crosses it. On a wall, the composition is almost all negative space and one confident line, which is what a runway looks like when it is the only one an island has.

That line carries a lot of Pacific history. Pan American World Airways picked Wake Island in 1935 as an intermediate support base for its seaplane routes toward the Far East, and a Sikorsky S-42 flying boat made the first aerial landing at the atoll that same year. In 1950 the field was a stop on Pan Am's round-the-world service, worked by double-decker Boeing 377 Stratocruiser propliners, and the airfield hosted the Truman and MacArthur meeting during the Korean War in 1950. By 1969 Pan Am was running a twice-weekly Boeing 707 through here, with flights serving Honolulu nonstop from Wake Island. The stopover era faded as longer range jets flew straight past.

The runway still earns its keep as a place to put an airplane down in the middle of nowhere. In 2014 a Delta Air Lines Boeing 767-300ER diverted in after an engine problem on a Honolulu to Nagoya flight, and in 2016 a China Airlines Airbus A330-300 landed with engine trouble en route from Honolulu to Tokyo. As of 2018 a handful of active duty Air Force airmen and roughly 100 contractors were stationed on the island. In 2020 and 2021 the runway and support facilities were modernized with new lighting, drainage and surface repairs. The artwork is plotted from published airport information, so the geometry on your wall is the geometry pilots read on approach charts: one strip, one heading, one island.

Wake Island (AWK) print, common questions

How many runways does Wake Island Airfield have?

One. Runway 10/28 is the whole field, and the print draws it as a single diagonal strip with its parallel taxiway alongside.

How long is the runway at AWK?

9,844 feet long and 150 feet wide, with an asphalt surface. That length is why transpacific jets have been able to use Wake Island as a diversion field.

Where is Wake Island Airfield and how high is it?

It sits on Wake Island in the central Pacific, at an elevation of 23 feet. The print lists the coordinates and the elevation under the AWK identifier.

How accurate is the layout in this artwork?

It is composed from published runway data for the field, including the runway designators, the proportions of 10/28 and the arrangement of taxiways and ramp areas. This is artwork rather than a navigation document, and fine details may be simplified or omitted. Lighting, markings and minor pavement edges are examples of what gets reduced for legibility at print scale.

What sizes and finishes can I get?

The piece comes as a Fine Art Print, a Framed Fine Art Print, a Glossy Metal Print or a Digital Download, in a range of sizes, with the colorway you choose applied to the same drawing. Physical pieces are made to order; the digital option is a file.

Is this a good gift for someone connected to Wake Island?

Yes. It reads well for anyone who staged through the atoll, flew Pacific routes, or has a family story tied to the island, since the single runway is instantly recognizable to anyone who has landed on it.