Alet Island

{{Short description|Island in the Federated States of Micronesia}} {{Multiple issues| {{Notability|1=Geographic|date=August 2025}} {{More citations needed|date=November 2025}} }} '''Alet Island''', also known as '''Alei Island''', is a small island in the Caroline Islands. It contains a lighthouse built by the Japanese on its west side, which is a registered building. USS Tinosa (SS-283) bombarded a radio station on Alet Island during World War II, and USS Tunny (SS-282) also patrolled off Alet Island. To Island and Elangeb Island are small islands just to the northeast. Poluwat Island lies to the east,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Office |first1=United States Hydrographic |title=Pacific Islands Pilot: Western groups |date=1928 |publisher=Hydrographic Office under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy |page=687 |url=https://www.google.com.ph/books/edition/Pacific_Islands_Pilot_Western_groups/YKqGAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=alet+island&pg=PA687&printsec=frontcover |access-date=10 November 2025 |language=en}}</ref> and Sau Island to the southeast. Alet and Poluwat was formerly thought of as just one island named Kata before it was decided it was two.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Findlay |first1=Alexander George |title=A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean: The islands, etc., of the Pacific Ocean |date=1851 |publisher=R.H. Laurie |page=1091 |url=https://www.google.com.ph/books/edition/A_Directory_for_the_Navigation_of_the_Pa/p5tDAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=alet+island&pg=PA1359&printsec=frontcover |access-date=10 November 2025 |language=en}}</ref> Enderby Bank is a reef about 5 miles west northwest of the island.

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