Key facts
- Location
- Pacific Ocean
- Area
- 32.55 km (12.57 sq mi)
- Prefecture
- Tokyo
- Subprefecture
- Ogasawara Subprefecture
- Village
- Ogasawara
- Population
- 380 (January 2008)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Ogasawara Archipelago
- Has part
- Nishinoshima
- Named after
- volcano
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Tokyo
- Population
- 380
- Area
- 32.55
- Elevation
- 916
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- Kazan-retto.jpg
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- Commons category
- Volcano Islands
- topic's main category
- Category:Volcano Islands
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- discoverer or inventor
- Bernardo de la Torre
- time of discovery or invention
- 1543-10-00
- native label
- 火山列島
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Encyclopedic overview
The Volcano Islands (火山列島, Kazan Rettō), also known as Iwo Islands (硫黄列島, Iō Rettō) are a group of three Japanese islands in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. They lie southwest of the Ogasawara Islands and are administered as part of the Ogasawara, Tokyo Metropolis. 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 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.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Volcano Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.