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Hashima Island (端島, or simply Hashima, as -shima is a Japanese suffix for 'island'), commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島, meaning 'Battleship Island'), is a tiny abandoned island off Nagasaki, lying about 15 kilometres (8 nautical miles) from the centre of the city. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture.
Uninhabited islands are often depicted in films or stories about shipwrecked people, and are also used as stereotypes for the idea of "paradise". Some uninhabited islands are protected as nature reserves, and some are privately owned. Devon Island in Canada's far north is the largest uninhabited island in the world. [1] [2]
The classification of lost lands as continents, islands, or other regions is in some cases subjective; for example, Atlantis is variously described as either a "lost island" or a "lost continent". Lost land theories may originate in mythology or philosophy , or in scholarly or scientific theories, such as catastrophic theories of geology .
A unique new cruise is offering an up-close look at a nearly forgotten part of New York City — the abandoned islands along the East River. They’ve been home to baseball stars, violent maritime ...
The island is instead known as the most remote inhabited island on Earth. Gough Island is uninhabited apart from a weather station with around 6–7 people on it but they are not a permanent population. [1] Easter Island is another omission. The island is 320 kilometres (200 mi) from Isla Salas y Gómez. [2]
Hardwicke was the sole European settlement in the Auckland Islands, founded in 1849 but abandoned in 1851. Jamestown was a settlement in what is now Fiordland National Park. Kelso was abandoned after severe and repeated flooding in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lyell was a gold mining town in the Buller Gorge in the South Island.
52.7 U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (uninhabited) 52.8 Disputed. 53 See also. 54 External links. ... This is a partial list of notable islands of the United States, ...
The day of his disappearance, the songwriter was set to travel to the U.S. with the band, but his abandoned car was instead found near the Severn Bridge, a site that had become infamous for people ...