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Tsushima Reef, located in the bay between Tsushima and Iki Island, is the northernmost coral reef in the world, surpassing the Iki Island reef discovered in 2001. [23] It is dominated by cool-tolerant stony or Scleractinian Favia corals but the observed settling of tropical Acropora coral is expected to provide an ongoing indicator for ...
Tsushima City-hall. Tsushima (対馬市, Tsushima-shi) is an island city grouped in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.It is the only city of Tsushima Subprefecture and it encompasses all of Tsushima Island, which lies in the Tsushima Strait north of Nagasaki on the western side of Kyushu, the southernmost mainland island of Japan.
A 1950 United States' report titled Korea's Recent Claim to the Island of Tsushima analyzed the Korean claim and says: [18] "While many Koreans may be convinced of the validity of the claim, it is obvious that the government's demands and popular support for them have not been based on a rational, legal analysis of the issue.
Sō clan (宗氏, Sō-shi) were a Japanese clan claiming descent from Taira no Tomomori. [1] The clan governed and held Tsushima Island from the 13th through the late 19th century, from the Kamakura period until the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration.
The Tsushima Strait measures approximately 100 kilometres along Tsushima Island and is about 65 kilometres wide at its narrowest. The strait has a depth of about 140 [4] metres and is bounded by the Tsushima Islands to the west through north (of Gotō Islands).
To the north is Tsushima Island in the Tsushima Strait and to the east is Kyūshū and the rest of Nagasaki Prefecture. It is about 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the port of Nagasaki . The Tsushima Current (a branch of the Kuroshio ) passes around the islands.
[23] [24] [25] Two days later they began landing on Tsushima Island. The principal landing was made at Komoda beach near Sasuura, on the northwestern tip of the southern island of Shimono. Additional landings occurred in the strait between the two islands of Tsushima, as well as at two points on the northern island of Kamino. [26]
Tsushima Subprefecture, an administrative subdivision of Nagasaki prefecture (coterminous with Tsushima Island) Tsushima Fuchū Domain, a feudal domain of the early modern period, largely if not entirely contiguous with the Province; Tsushima Basin, also known as Ulleung Basin, located at the juncture of the Sea of Japan and the Korea Strait ...