Mikura-jima
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Izu Islands | |
| Geographical location | 33 ° 52 ′ 30 ″ N , 139 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 5.9 km | |
| width | 5.5 km | |
| surface | 20.51 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Oyama 851 m |
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| Residents | 338 (October 1, 2019) 16 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Mikurajima | |
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Mikura-jima ( Japanese 御 蔵 島 ) is a volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean . Geographically, it belongs to the archipelago of the Izu Islands and, like the entire archipelago, administratively belongs to the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo .
geography
Mikura-jima is located about 200 km south of Tokyo and 22 km south of the neighboring island of Miyake-jima , with which it forms the sub-prefecture of Miyake ( 三 宅 支 庁 , Miyake-shichō ). The almost round island has a diameter of almost 6 km and an area of 20.51 km². The whole island is formed by the up to 851 m high stratovolcano Oyama ( 御 山 , sometimes misread as Miyama), the last eruption of which was about 6000 years ago.
The 338 inhabitants (as of October 1, 2019) live in the village of Mikurajima ( 御 蔵 島村 , -mura ), which covers the entire island; the population density is 16 people / km².
Individual evidence
- ↑ 東京 都 の 人口 （推 計） ト ッ プ ペ ー ジ . 東京 都 , October 1, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ 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 29, 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.
- ↑ 御 蔵 島 （東京 都） . Meteorological Office of Japan, accessed July 29, 2016 (Japanese).
- ↑ Map of Hachijō-jima of the Army Map Service (GU), Corps of Engineers, US Army from 1952 (digitized in the university library of the University of Texas )
Web links
- Mikura-jima in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)
- Mikura-jima in the Japanese Volcanoes Quaternary database (English and Japanese)