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. Together with the Bonin Islands, the Volcanos form the Ogasawara Archipelago and Subprefecture. Together with the Bonins and Izu Islands, they form the Nanpo Islands, all formally organized as part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. North Iwo Jima is located 80 kilometers (50 mi) north of Iwo Jima, 207 kilometers (129 mi) SSW of Chichijima in the Bonins, and 1,170 kilometers (730 mi) south of Tokyo on Honshu. Previously inhabited by two Japanese villages from 1898 to 1944, it is currently a desert island.
^Teikoku's Complete Atlas of Japan, Teikoku-Shoin Co., Ltd., Tokyo, ISBN 4-8071-0004-1
^"Volcano Islands - Encyclopedia".
^"Iwo-to Kaitaku no Hi (Iwo-to Cultivation Monument)", Official site, Chichijima: Ogasawara Village, 2023.
^Von Siebold, Philipp Franz Bathasar (1852), Nippon..., Vol. I: Mathematische und Physische Geographie vom Reiche Japan (in German), Leiden, p. 148{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
IwoJima, now officially romanized Iōtō (硫黄島, "Sulfur Island"), is one of the Japanese Volcano Islands, which lie south of the Bonin Islands and together...
NorthIwoJima (Japanese: 北硫黄島, Kita Iwōjima, "North Sulfur Island"), now officially North or Kita Iōtō (written with the same characters) and previously...
Raising the Flag on IwoJima (Japanese: 硫黄島の星条旗, Hepburn: Iōtō no Seijōki, lit. 'The Stars and Stripes on Iōtō') is an iconic photograph of six United...
Naval Base IwoJima was a naval base built by United States Navy on the Japanese Volcano Island of IwoJima during and after the Battle of IwoJima, that started...
Letters from IwoJima (硫黄島からの手紙, Iōjima Kara no Tegami) is a 2006 Japanese-language American war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring...
South IwoJima (南硫黄島, Minami-Iōtō, "South Sulfur Island"), officially Minami or South Iōtō (written with the same characters) since 18 June 2007 and also...
The Battle of IwoJima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed...
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In anticipation of the Battle of IwoJima, Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi prepared a defense that broke with Japanese military doctrine. Rather...
Chichijima, Kitamura and Okimura on Hahajima, Iōtō on IwoJima, and Ishinomura and Nishimura on NorthIwoJima. All civilians on the islands were forcibly evacuated...
for having been the commander of the Japanese garrison at the battle of IwoJima. Even before the battle, General Kuribayashi insisted upon sharing the...
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the Bonin or Ogasawara Islands. Chichijima is about 240 km (150 mi) north of IwoJima. 23.5 km2 (9.1 sq mi) in size, the island is home to about 2,120 people...
Pteropodidae. It is endemic to four islands (Chichijima, Hahajima, NorthIwoJima, and South IwoJima) of the Bonin Islands group, Japan. Its natural habitat is...
iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on IwoJima, taken during the 1945 Battle of IwoJima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs...
Battle of IwoJima in World War II. He was a member of the patrol that captured Mount Suribachi, where he helped raise the first U.S. flag on IwoJima on February...
States Marine Corps corporal who was killed in action during the Battle of IwoJima in World War II. Born in Yorktown, Texas, Block joined the Marine Corps...
the first wave of marines to land on the Japanese island stronghold of IwoJima. He was a friend of John Basilone. Tatum's war memoir, Red Blood, Black...
Seventh Air Force bombers to attack installations on the island as well as IwoJima. Four days later there was another attack by Fleet Air Wing One. Then on...
settlements on the Volcano Islands and the Self-Defense Force post on IwoJima. The seat of government is Chichijima. Because of the Bonins' isolation...
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