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  Ogasawara Islands Summary
The Ogasawara islands are a part of an island arc known geologically as a 'fore arc'.
Most of the islands have steep shorelines, often with sea cliffs ranging from 50 to 100 meters in height, but the islands are also fringed with coral reefs and have many beaches.
The islands were occupied by the U.S. Navy from 1945, at which point the inhabitants who were western in descent were allowed back on the island.
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  Toshima, Tokyo (ward) - from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Toshima (豊島区; -ku) is a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan.
As of 2003, the ward has an estimated population of 252,764 and a density of 19,428.44 persons per km².
The former Somei Village, now part of Toshima, is the birthplace of the Somei Yoshino, Japan's most popular ornamental cherry tree.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toshima,_Tokyo_(ward)   (167 words)

  
 Izu Islands - from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
The Izu Islands (伊豆諸島) are a group of volcanic islands stretching south and east from the Izu Peninsula of Honshu, Japan.
All islands are specified for a Fuji Hakone Izu national park.
Volcanic activity (including the release of harmful gases) on the island forced the evacuation of the entire population of Miyakejima in 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Izu_Islands   (167 words)

  
 Kagoshima Visitor's GUIDE / Update Newsletter
Tokara islands or Toshima islands (formally Toshimamura) are located between Yakushima and Amami Oshima.
The sea around Tokara islands is the confluence of the Pacific ocean and the East China ocean.
It is believed that Takarajima (literaly "Treature island") is the island on which Stevenson's novel "Treasure island" is based.
cgi1.synapse.ne.jp /~update/whatup/back/tokara.html   (1147 words)

  
 JI5RPT Web Site - AS049 - JA6PSE and JA6PSI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The islands have 7 inhabited islands and 5 uninhabited islands.
Takara island is the southernmost inhabited island of AS-049.
The population of this island is only 120 and the circumference is 13.77km.
www.aa.alpha-net.ne.jp /ji5rpt/as-049   (162 words)

  
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The Izu islands are the chief breeding-site for Japanese auk or murrelet Synthliboramphus wumizusume (IUCN, 1975).
All of the main islands are inhabited (Sutherland and Britton, 1980).
Although at a temperate latitude the islands' marine flora and fauna are characterised by a predominently tropical element.
www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/1307v.htm   (1957 words)

  
 Kagoshima Visitor's GUIDE / Update Newsletter
The only transportation to Tokara islands is by ferry which run between Kagoshima City and the islands a few times a week.
The sea around Tokara islands is the confluence of the Pacific ocean and the East China ocean.
It is believed that Takarajima (literaly "Treature island") is the island on which Stevenson's novel "Treasure island" is based.
www.synapse.ne.jp /update/whatup/back/tokara.html   (1147 words)

  
 Seven Countries Study : Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ushibuka, the southernmost village on Kyushu, which is the southernmost island of Japan, was chosen by our Japanese colleagues as representative of a stable, rural culture predominantly of fisherman.
The church still stands as a memorial to the courage of those Japanese who, later, when the Portuguese were driven away, were challenged by their Samurai leader to stand on the symbol of Christ and swear they were not Christians.
The Japanese cohorts share with the Greek Islands the lowest coronary heart disease risk of the Seven Countries, hinging the lower end of the regression line between risk variables and coronary heart disease incidence.
www.epi.umn.edu /about/7countries/japan2.shtm   (2590 words)

  
 Tokyo [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The islands are also known as the Bonin Islands, and the southernmost (uninhabited) group is known as the Volcano Islands....
The Izu IslandsThe Izu Islands (伊豆諸島) are a group of volcanic islands stretching south and east from the Izu Peninsula of Honshu, Japan.
Because of the islands' distance from the city, they are locally run by branches of the metropolitan government.
www.wikimirror.com /Tokyo   (11893 words)

  
 Toshima - from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Toshima is the name of some places in of Japan.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toshima   (87 words)

  
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Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula.
The 7 constituent islands are from the north to the south: Oshima, Toshima, Nijima, Kozujima, Miyakejima, Mikurajima and Hchijojima.
Island group in the Pacific Ocean, halfway between Japan and Taiwan.
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municipality of la laguna (tenerife island, santa cruz de tenerife province, canary islands, spain)
tenerife island (santa cruz de tenerife province, canary islands, spain)
british solomon islands protectorate c.1906-1947 (solomon islands)
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 Japan Regional Information
Niijima Island is famous for the scenery of Hanebushi-ura Inlet at the east coast.
As Ogasawara Islands have always been remote, never being adjacent to a continent since they are formed, animals and plants evolved in their own way.
The Main island, also the entrance for Tokyo, Chichi-jima Island is 1000 km away to the south from the downtown Tokyo on the Pacific and it extends about 24 km².
www.asia-planet.net /japan/tokyo.htm   (5609 words)

  
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city of puerto de la cruz (canary islands, spain)
city of santa cruz de tenerife (canary islands, spain)
island and municipal flags (canary islands, spain)
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 Introduction to Niijima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Niijima is one of the seven major southern Izu Islands, with 24 square km area and 28 km circumference.
Traffic to and from the island is very convenient, while from Tokyo access is possible by airplane, or, more intresting, by ship.
The major neibouring islands are Toshima in the north and Shikinejima and Kozushima in the south.
www.alfcen.com /niijima/intro.htm   (362 words)

  
 DCP: 30 degrees north, 130 degrees east
A more practical and safer way to get to the closest island near the confluence is to do what most people do and that is first to go to Kagoshima, on Kyushu island, and from there board a ferry to Kuchino shima.
That island is the gateway of the Tokara Islands consisting of 7 populated and 5 deserted islands.
The island is around 13 km by 2.5 km, much smaller than Manhattan, which is 21km by 3.5 km, and the population is just 170 people compared to 1,500,000 in Manhattan.
confluence.org /confluence.php?lat=30&lon=130   (1017 words)

  
 Tokyo prefecture
Tokyo prefecture is divided into wards (区; Ku), cities (市部; Shibu) and islands (島; shima).
Wards: Adachi, Arakawa, Bunkyo, Chiyoda, Chuo, Edogawa, Itabashi, Katsushika, Kita, Koto, Meguro, Minato, Nakano, Nerima, Ota, Setagaya, Shibuya, Shinagawa, Shinjuku, Suginami, Sumida, Taito, Toshima
Islands: Aogashima, Oshima, Ogasawara islands, Kozushima, Toshima, Nijima, Hachijoshima, Mikurajima, Mitakeshima.
www.fastload.org /to/Tokyo_prefecture.html   (139 words)

  
 SUWANOSE-JIMA VOLCANO
According to the Suwanosejima office of Toshima village, rumbling had been heard intermittently at the place about 4 km SSW of the summit and small ash falling was observed on 12 September.
According to the Suwanosejima Branch of the Toshima Village Office, ash was falling in the 26 July morning.
According to the Suwanose-jima Branch of Toshima-Village, whose main office is in a different island, reported that falling of abundant ash was observed around 08:45 on 11 May in the village about 4 km NNW of the active crater (Otake), such that cars could not run without dusting the front windows.
hakone.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp /vrc/erup/suwa.html   (1742 words)

  
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flag of 1972 of the northern mariana islands
municipality of la oliva (fuerteventura island, santa cruz de tenerife province, canary islands, spa
norderney island (aurich county, east frisia, lower saxony, germany)
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The 8-km-long, spindle-shaped island of Suwanose-jima in the northern Ryukyu Islands consists of an andesitic stratovolcano with two historically active summit craters.
The Suwanose-jima Branch of Toshima village, ~4 km NNW of the active On-take (Otake) crater, reported that abundant ash fall was observed in the village on 11 May. Vigorous eruptions on the evening of 12 May and the morning of 13 May deposited up to 3 cm of ash in the village.
According to the Suwanose-jima office of Toshima Village, rumbling sounds were not as strong as those of the previous week, but were sometimes accompanied by the sounds of large explosions on the 20th.
www.volcano.si.edu /reports/usgs/archive.cfm?volcano=suwanose   (2503 words)

  
 CSI Whales Alive! Vol. IX No. 2 News from Japan
In 1998, she gave birth to a calf.
All is not well, however, as fishing concerns based on the nearby islands of Ni-jima and Shikine-jima are claiming that they have the right to fish off of Toshima.
Shinsaku Tomita, the village chief in Toshima, received a letter from the 7th annual Whales Alive Conference thanking him for his cooperation and efforts to protect Koko and Piko.
www.csiwhalesalive.org /csi00206.html   (755 words)

  
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Being affected by the boundary conditions, vortices should be arranged in ideal polygon structure along the periphery of the disk.
Transformation of the tunneling gap at the center of the island in response to the perpendicular magnetic field was supposed to be the most conclusive for the vortex state identification.
Array of In disks was fabricated by the electron-beam lithography in a double-layer resist mask, low-temperature (77K) In deposition and lift-off process.
haithabu.fy.chalmers.se /abstracts/080-html/080.html   (945 words)

  
 Dean & JoJo - Marine Wildlife Foundation
We climb past multi-million dollar housing, and finally reach the summit, the highest elevation on the island, and are rewarded with an eye-dazzling expanse of turquoise water ringed by a surprising abundance of vegetation.
It is an ingenious island adaptation that is not unlike the chameleon process that Bernal himself has gone through in the past decade of island living.
Interwoven with the island simplicity, there is a more complex process of reaching out to, and mingling with, the rhythms of the larger world, a place that Bernal is intimately connected to at all times.
www.marinewildlife.org /deanBernal.php   (2997 words)

  
 Izu-shoto(Islands)
'Kozushima' is an island in the south of 'shikinejima'.
'Hachijojima' is an island in the south of 'Mikurajima'.
The island called 'Toshima' in addition to this is located in Izu Islands.
haya090.yoll.net /izu_shoto/izu_shoto_eng.html   (352 words)

  
 CSI Whales Alive! Vol. IX No. 2 News from Japan
Since 1995 a dolphin has been living in the sea off the island of Toshima and has become familiar with the islanders, fisher folk, and divers there.
All is not well, however, as fishing concerns based on the nearby islands of Ni-jima and Shikine-jima are claiming that they have the right to fish off of Toshima.
Elsa is helping the Toshima islanders in their efforts to protect the two dolphins.
csiwhalesalive.org /csi00206.html   (755 words)

  
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The general public is allowed to cross this bridge on two days of the year: New Year's and the Emperor's birthday on Dec. 23 to greet the Imperial family appearing on a balcony.
The Izu Islands are closest, while the Ogasawara Islands stretch over 1,000 km away from mainland Japan.
Izu Islands *Oshima - Islands of Kozushima, TokyoKozushima, Niijima, TokyoNiijima, Oshima, TokyoOshima, and Toshima, Tokyo (village)Toshima.
www.dancinglessonsfromgod.co.uk /holiday-destinations/holiday-destinations_0205.txt   (3309 words)

  
 Archived Volcano Eruption News
A comparison of old and new photographs of the area shows that the northern part of the island is much higher than before, and three quarters of the land area that is now there may be completely new.
Australia's McDonald Islands have doubled in size because of recent and possibly ongoing volcanic eruptions, and it appears that the separate islands of McDonald Island and Flat Island are now one.
The McDonald Islands have cliff-lined coasts and are surrounded by rocky shoals and reefs that are treacherous for boats and landing parties.
www.volcanolive.com /news49.html   (1811 words)

  
 The True Keyblade Master... -- Day
Riku was born and raised on the Destiny Islands.
Considering himself the coolest kid on the island, he is often quiet and mysterious.
He along with Wakka are brotherly figures to the younger kids on the island, and he'd hurt anyone who harmed them.
www.greatestjournal.com /users/true_master/2005/03/25   (143 words)

  
 Mysterious legends about Sarushima Island that have been passed down through the ages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In fact, there were ten of them altogether and, thinking that "toshima" (literally, "ten islands") would be propitious, they called the island Toshima (a rich island in Chinese characters).
Nichiren's boat drifted on to Sarushima Island and, led by a white monkey that appeared at that time, it is said that he was able to land safely at the present-day Yonegahama.
The serpent was the divine protector of the shrine and, when it came to the island, it lurked in a cavern on the north side of the island.
www.city.yokosuka.kanagawa.jp /e/sarusima/saru2.html   (432 words)

  
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Its center is at 35°41' North, 139°46' East (35.68333, 139.7667) [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html], but its borders extend to outlying islands in the Pacific Ocean, some as far as 1,000 km south of the mainland.
It also consists of islands in the Pacific Ocean directly south -- the Izu Islands are closest, while the Ogasawara Islands stretch over 1,000 km away from mainland Japan.
Also includes two tiny outlying islands: Minami Torishima, the easternmost point in Japan and at 1 850 km the most distant island from central Tokyo, and Okino Torishima, the southernmost point in Japan.
www.homestayfinder.com /Dictionary.aspx?q=Tokyo   (3112 words)

  
 Topic Guide: toshima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Toshima Island (Japan) This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website Toshima Island (Japan) Last modified: 2005-04-09 by phil nelson Keywords: toshima island
Definition of Toshima, Tokyo (ward) Definition of Toshima, Tokyo (ward) This article covers the ward of Toshima in central Tokyo; see Toshima, Tokyo (village) for the small southern island.
Toshima (Jö:; -ku) is a special ward located...
www.kenbutsu.com /category/japan/cities/toshima.htm   (399 words)

  
 Tokyo information - Search.com
It also consists of two island chains in the Pacific Ocean directly south -- the Izu Islands which are almost parallel to the Izu Penninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Ogasawara Islands which stretch more than 1,000 km away from mainland Japan.
The Izu Islands are a group of volcanic islands and form part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.
Long-distance ferries serve the islands of Tokyo and carry passengers and cargo to domestic and foreign ports.
www.search.com /reference/Tokyo   (3097 words)

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