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The Ryukyu Islands [note 1] (琉球列島, Ryūkyū-rettō), also known as the Nansei Islands (南西諸島, Nansei-shotō, lit."Southwest Islands") or the Ryukyu Arc (琉球弧, Ryūkyū-ko), are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ryukyu Islands are divided into the Satsunan Islands (Ōsumi, Tokara and Amami) and Okinawa Prefecture (Daitō, Miyako ...
Kusu Island is one of the Southern Islands in Singapore, located about 5.6 kilometres (3.5 miles) to the south of the main island of Singapore and below the Singapore Straits. "Kusu" means "Tortoise Island" or "Turtle Island" in Hokkien (Chinese: 龟屿; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ku-sū); the island is also known as Peak Island or Pulau Tembakul in Malay.
The island and the campaign to officially name it Busta Rhymes Island was the central topic of an episode of 99% Invisible which explored the naming of places. [5] The island is also included in the book The 99% Invisible City as an example of informal geonyms. [5] [1]
The Kai Islands (also Kei Islands) of Indonesia are a group of islands in the southeastern part of the Maluku Islands, located in the province of Maluku. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Moluccas have been known as the Spice Islands due to regionally specific plants such as nutmeg , mace , and cloves that originally intrigued the European nations of the 16th ...
Map of the Channel Islands of California. Module:Location map/data/USA California Channel Islands is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Channel Islands of California. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Monkey Island is a peninsula on the northern shore of Grand Lake o' the Cherokees, located 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Grove, Oklahoma. [1] It is 6 miles (9.7 km) long from north to south and State Highway 125 runs through the peninsula to its southern end.
Waikīkī (/ ˌ w aɪ k ɪ ˈ k iː /; [1] [2] Hawaiian: [wɐjˈkiːkiː, vɐjˈtiːtiː]) is a Honolulu [3] neighborhood and the eponymous Waikīkī beach on its south shore, on the island of Oʻahu in the U.S. state of Hawaii.
Yakushima (屋久島) is one of the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.The island, 504.88 km 2 (194.94 sq mi) in area, has a population of 13,178. Access to the island is by hydrofoil ferry (7 or 8 times a day from Kagoshima, depending on the season), slow car ferry (once or twice a day from Kagoshima), or by air to Yakushima Airport (3 to 5 times daily from Kagoshima, once daily ...