Sotobanari
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| Waters | East China Sea | |
| Archipelago | Yaeyama Islands | |
| Geographical location | 24 ° 22 '24 " N , 123 ° 43' 8" E | |
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| length | 1.7 km | |
| width | 930 m | |
| surface | 1.32 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 146 m | |
| Residents | 1 (2012) <1 inh / km² |
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Sotobanari ( Japanese 外 離島 Sotobanari-jima , German 'outer, distant island' ) is one of the islands of the Yaeyama Islands , which belong to the Sakishima archipelago . The tropical island is located in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa in the extreme southwest of Japan in the East China Sea .
Administratively, the island belongs to the district of Iriomote of the municipality of Taketomi .
geography
Sotobanari is a secondary island 1700 meters west of the island of Iriomote and just under 500 northwest of the other secondary island Uchibanari ("inner, distant island"). The island is 1700 meters long and up to 930 meters wide and has an area of 1.32 km².
Residents
Only one pensioner lives on the island, the Japanese Masafumi Nagasaki. However, the island is officially uninhabited.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 指定 離島 ・ 指定 離島 一 覧 . (PDF) In: 離島 関係 資料 （平 成 28 年 1 月） . 沖 縄 県 企 画 部 地域 ・ 離島 課 ("Land and Islands Unit, Planning Department, Okinawa Prefecture"), January 2016, p. 1 , accessed on 3. August 2016 (Japanese).
- ↑ Unusual retiree existence: Naked on the tropical island. In: Spiegel Online . April 17, 2012, Retrieved April 23, 2012 .