Hachijō-jima

Hachijō-jima
	Landsat recording of Hachijō-jima and Hachijō-kojima
Waters	Pacific Ocean
Archipelago	Izu Islands
Geographical location	33 ° 6 '34 " N , 139 ° 47' 29" E Coordinates: 33 ° 6 '34 " N , 139 ° 47' 29" E
surface	69.09 km²
Highest elevation	Nishiyama (Hachijō-Fuji) ; 854.3 m
Residents	7127 (October 1, 2019) ; 103 inhabitants / km²
main place	Hachijō
	topographic map

Hachijō-jima ( Japanese 八丈島 ) is a volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean . It belongs geographically to the Izu Islands and administratively to the city of Hachijō of Tokyo Prefecture .

In the criminal law of the Tokugawa Shogunate , the island served as a place of exile for offenders from eastern Japan , i.e. H. the province of Mino and east of it.

geography

Mount Nishiyama (Hachijō-Fuji)

The 69.09 km² island of Hachijō-jima is located in the Pacific Ocean south of Sagami Bay and the Izu Peninsula .

7.5 km to the west is the 3.08 km² island of Hachijō-kojima ( 八丈小島 , dt. "Small Hachijō island"). To distinguish it from this, Hachijō-jima is therefore also referred to as Hachijō-honjima ( 八丈本島 , dt. "Hachijō-main island") or Hachijō-ōshima ( 八丈大島 , dt. "Large Hachijō island").

The island consists of two volcanic cones, the 854.3 m high Nishiyama ( 西山 , " west mountain"), which is also called Hachijō- Fuji ( 八丈富士 ) due to its regular cone shape , in the northwest and the 700.9 m high Higashiyama ( 東山 , "Ostberg") or Mihara-yama ( 三原山 ) in the southeast.

The 7127 inhabitants (as of October 1, 2019) of the municipality of the same name mostly live in the plain between the two volcanic cones.

fauna and Flora

Hachijō-jima is part of the archipelago in the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park .

language

The Hachijō dialect was spoken on Hachijō-jima, which has preserved many archaic forms of the eastern dialects of Old Japanese . Older residents, however, only have a passive understanding and younger residents none at all.

Web links

Commons : Hachijō-jima - collection of images, videos and audio files

Hachijō-jima in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)

Individual evidence

↑ 遠島 . In: 百科事典マイペディア at kotobank.jp. Hitachi Solutions, May 2010, accessed January 8, 2011 (Japanese).
↑ ^a ^b 島面積 . (PDF; 144 kB) (No longer available online.) Kokudo Chiriin , October 1, 2014, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved July 28, 2016 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Shinji Sanada, Yukio Uemura: Japanese Dialects and Ryukuyan . In: Osahito Miyaoka, Osamu Sakiyama, Michael E. Krauss (Eds.): The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, pp. 359 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

[1] 遠島 . In: 百科事典マイペディア at kotobank.jp. Hitachi Solutions, May 2010, accessed January 8, 2011 (Japanese).

[Inselflächen-2] 島面積 . (PDF; 144 kB) (No longer available online.) Kokudo Chiriin , October 1, 2014, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved July 28, 2016 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[3] Shinji Sanada, Yukio Uemura: Japanese Dialects and Ryukuyan . In: Osahito Miyaoka, Osamu Sakiyama, Michael E. Krauss (Eds.): The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, pp. 359 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).