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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 February 2025. One of the Japanese Volcano Islands This article is about the island in the Volcano Archipelago. For other uses, see Battle of Iwo Jima and Iwo Jima (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Iejima. Iōtō (Iwo Jima) Native name: 硫黄島 Photo of Iwo Jima (Iōtō), c. 2016, with Mount ...
Chichijima (父島) is the largest and most populous island in the Japanese archipelago of Bonin or Ogasawara Islands.Chichijima is about 240 km (150 mi) north of Iwo Jima. 23.5 km 2 (9.1 sq mi) in size, the island is home to about 2,120 people (2021). [1]
[1] [2] The islands are all active volcanoes lying atop the Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc that stretches south to the Marianas. They have an area of 32.55 square kilometres (12.57 sq mi), and a population of 380. The island of Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands lies about 1,240 kilometres (670 nmi; 771 mi) southeast of Miyazaki. [3]
The name Bonin comes from an 1817 article in the French Journal des Savans by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat in which—among various other misunderstandings of his source material [3] —he misread a description of the islands as uninhabited (無人嶋, "desert island[s]") for their actual name, used the wrong reading of the characters (buninshima for mujintō), and then transcribed the resulting ...
The 1949 film Sands of Iwo Jima, directed by Allan Dwan and starring John Wayne, follows a United States Marine rifle squad preparing for battle at Iwo Jima. The 2006 films Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood, treat the theme of this Pacific battle and present the positions of both belligerents in this ...
North Iwo Jima (Japanese: 北硫黄島, Kita Iwōjima, "North Sulfur Island"), [1] now officially North or Kita Iōtō (written with the same characters) and previously known as Santo [2] or San Alessandro, [3] Hooge Meeuwen Island (Dutch: t'Hooge Meuwen Eylandt, "High Seagull Island"), [4] and North Sulfur Island, is the northernmost member of Japan's Volcano Islands.
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Minamitorishima (南鳥島, lit."Southern Bird Island") (pronounced: [minamitoɾiɕi̥ma]) sometimes Minami-Tori-shima or Minami-Torishima, also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, located some 1,848 km (998 nmi; 1,148 mi) southeast of Tokyo and 1,267 km (684 nmi; 787 mi) east of the closest Japanese island, South Iwo Jima of the ...