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Volcano Islands The or are a group of three Japanese-governed islands in Micronesia. They lie south of the Ogasawara Islands and belong to the municipality of Ogasawara, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. The islands are all active volcanoes lying atop ...

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Ogasawara Subprefecture is a subprefecture of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. The subprefecture covers the Ogasawara Archipelago and is coterminous with the village of Ogasawara. The prefectural government maintains a main office on Chichijima and a branch office on Hahajim ...

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, 80 km north of Iwo Jima. It is located south of Tokyo, and south-southwest of

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Geography

The island consists of the heavily eroded peak of an active stratovolcano, which rises above sea level ( according to other sources). Having a volume of , it is the largest volcano in Japan by volume. The peak is called , with another peak at . It has an area of , and it has a shore length of . It is an uninhabited part of the municipality of Ogasawara. Its Japanese name was changed to Kita-Iōtō on 18 June 2007. The island forms part of the Kazan-retto islands Important Bird Area (IBA), designated by BirdLife International.

History

First sighting by Europeans was in October 1543 by Spanish navigator

Bernardo de la Torre Bernardo de la Torre was a Spanish sailor, primarily noted for having explored parts of the Western Pacific Ocean south of Japan in the 16th century. Bernardo de la Torre sailed under the instructions of Ruy López de Villalobos, who sent him in Au ...

on board of carrack ''San Juan de Letrán'', when trying to return from Sarangani to New Spain. The island was formerly inhabited. It was first settled by fishermen from the

in 1898, who lived in two towns, Ishinomura (east) and Nishimura (west). At the start of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

, the population was 103. The civilian population was evacuated during the war.

Unincorporated Unincorporated may refer to: * Unincorporated area, land not governed by a local municipality * Unincorporated entity, a type of organization * Unincorporated territories of the United States, territories under U.S. jurisdiction, to which Congress ...

until 1940, it became part of the newly created municipality of Iōtō in 1940, which was included in the town of Ogasawara in 1968 upon the return of the islands by the United States to Japan. Four men, flying a United States Navy

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jet from the U.S. aircraft carrier ''John C. Stennis'', died when their aircraft crashed on 10 August 2004 on North Iwo Jima during a naval exercise over the Pacific Ocean. They were Lt. Cmdr. Scott A. Zellem, 35, of Indiana, Pennsylvania; Lt. Patrick S. Myrick, 31, of Seattle; Lt. James J. Pupplo, 34, of Selden, New York; and Petty Officer 2nd Class Joshua B. Showalter, 24, of Fontana, California.

2009 total solar eclipse

During the

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, the island had nearly six and a half minutes of totality, longer than any other land mass.Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA's GSFC - map of Iwo Jima region
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Gallery

File:FA-18E Super Hornet of VFA-115 in flight off Kita Iwo Jima in May 2016.JPG File:Kita-Ioto East 20120309.jpg, Kita-Ioto Island seen from the east File:Kita-Ioto NW 20120309.jpg, Kita-Ioto Island seen from the NW File:Kita-Ioto South 20120309.jpg, Kita-Ioto Island seen from the south File:Kita-Ioto SSE 20120309.jpg, Kita-Ioto Island seen from the SSE File:Kita-Ioto SW 20120309.jpg, Kita-Ioto Island seen from the SW File:Kita-ioto.jpg, NW side of Kita-Iwojima

References

External links

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N. Iwo Jima page
{{Authority control Volcano Islands Volcanoes of Tokyo Uninhabited islands of Japan Former populated places in Oceania Former populated places in Japan Islands of Tokyo Important Bird Areas of the Nanpo Islands Seabird colonies