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The are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some 1,000 km directly south of central Tokyo, Japan. Administratively, they form one of the villages of Tokyo. The islands are also known as the 'Bonin Islands'. The total area of the islands is 84 km².
The only inhabited islands are Chichi-jima (父島) and Haha-jima (母島). These islands form the Ogasawara Village. There is also a military base on Iwo Jima with a staff of about 400.
The Ogasawara Islands consists of four subgroups, including the Volcano Islands, which are listed along with their main islands:
★ Mukojima Group (聟島列島 ''Mukojima Rettō'') - formerly Parry Group
★
★ Mukojima (聟島, literally: ''Bridegroom Island'')
★
★ Yomejima (嫁島, literally: ''Bride Island'')
★
★ Nakōdo-jima or Nakadachijima (媒島, literally: ''Go-between Island'')
★
★ Kitanojima (北ノ島 or 北島, literally: ''Northern Island'')
★ Chichijima Group (父島列島 ''Chichijima Rettō'') - formerly Beechey Group
★
★ Chichijima (父島, literally: ''Father Island''),
★
★ Anijima (兄島, literally: ''Elder Brother Island'')
★
★ Otōtojima (弟島, literally: ''Younger Brother Island'')
★ Hahajima Group (母島列島 ''Hahajima Rettō'') - formerly Baily Group
★
★ Hahajima (母島, literally: ''Mother Island'')
★
★ Anejima (姉島, literally: ''Elder Sister Island'')
★
★ Imōtojima (妹島, literally: ''Younger Sister Island'')
★ Volcano Group (火山列島 ''Kazan Rettō'')
★
★ Kitaiōjima (北硫黄島 ''Kitaiōjima'', literally: ''North Sulphur Island'')
★
★ Iwojima/Iōtō (硫黄島 ''Iōjima'', literally: ''Sulphur Island'')
★
★ Minamiiōjima (南硫黄島 ''Minamiiōjima'', literally: ''South Sulphur Island'')
★ Single Isolated Island, west of Hahajima Group and North of Volcano Group:
★
★ Nishino shima (西之島, literally: ''Western Island'', also: Rosario Island)
★ Isolated Remote Islands, not geographically but administratively part of Ogasawara Islands
★
★ Okinotorishima (沖ノ鳥島 or 沖鳥島, literally: ''Remote Bird Island'')
★
★ Minamitorishima (南鳥島, literally: ''Southern Bird Island'', also: Marcus Island)
The southernmost (uninhabited) group is known as the 'Volcano Islands'. 700 km further south is Okino Torishima, and 1,900 km further east is Minami Torishima.
The first European discovery of the islands is said to have taken place in 1543, by the Spanish explorer Bernardo de la Torre.[1] It is also claimed that Ogasawara Sadayori, a samurai, discovered the islands in 1592. The islands were granted to him as a fief by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.[2] The islands remained uninhabited until Nathaniel Savory, an American, landed on the island of Chichijima in 1830 and formed the first colony there.2 In 1853, Commodore Perry visited the islands and bought the islands from Savory for $50.2 To date, Nathaniel's descendants still live on the island.[3]
These groups were collectively called ''Islas del Arzobispo'' ("Archbishop Islands") in Spanish sources of the 18th-19th century. Japanese maps at the time seem to have been rather inaccurate and therefore considered by some[4] to be deliberately misleading. It is thought that this was an attempt to discourage colonization attempts by foreign nations. Frederick William Beechey used the Spanish name as late as 1831, and believed that the Japanese word "Boninsima" referred to entirely different islands.
In World War II, most of the inhabitants were evacuated to the mainland. There was a Japanese military base on Chichijima, whose officer in charge, Major Matoba, was known for performing sadistic acts (including cannibalism) on prisoners of war, and was executed for his crimes after the war. However, other officers on the island disagreed with his methods. Future President George H. W. Bush's plane crashed in the ocean near Chichijima, but he was rescued by an American submarine. The Battle of Iwo Jima, one of the fiercest battles of World War II, was fought here in 1945.
The islands were occupied by the U.S. Navy from 1945, at which point the inhabitants who were western in descent were allowed back on the island. The islands were returned to Japan in 1968, when the Japanese evacuees were finally allowed to return.
Now, nearly all of the inhabitants, including those of Western ancestry, are Japanese citizens and the Japanese language is used. During the nineteenth century, research points to the existence of an English-lexified pidgin/creole on the islands. During the twentieth century, islanders of Western descent increasingly mixed Japanese with island English, resulting in a "Mixed Language" which can still be heard among these islanders today. Younger speakers are monolingual in variety of Japanese closely resembling the Tokyo standard. A bilingual dictionary, ''Talking Dictionary of the Bonin Islands Language (with CD-ROM)'', edited by Daniel Long and Naoyuki Hashimoto, was published in 2005.
A 25m-diameter radio telescope is located in Chichijima, which is one of the stations of the VERA (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry) project, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
In Japanese, the archipelago is called . The Romanized name is Bonin Islands, which is an older reading of 無人 (''mujin''), meaning 'no people' or 'uninhabited.'
Japan's Ministry of the Environment and Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries have entered the Ogasawara Islands as a candidate World Heritage Site on the premise that the islands meet the three listing criteria for geology, ecosystems, and biodiversity.[5]
The giant squid (genus ''Architeuthis'') was filmed off the Ogasawara Islands for the first time in the wild on September 27, 2005, and was captured in December of 2006.[6]
The Ogasawara Islands have been referenced in a number of works of fiction. The Sevii Islands from Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green are based on the Bonin Islands. In the Godzilla films Monster Island is sometimes located in the chain. In an English-dubbed version, it is referred to as "Ogasawara Island" as if it were a lone island of that name. In the television series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, a fictional island in the chain, South Ataria Island (which would have laid at the southernmost position in the chain, surpassing Minami Iwo Jima), is the landing site of the SDF-1 Macross.[7]
One can get from the main Japanese islands to Chichijima by way of the ''Ogasawara Maru'' liner, run by Ogasawara Marine Transportation. The boat leaves from Takeshiba port in Tokyo Bay, and the trip takes around 25.5 hours (in good weather). There are four or five crossings each month. The ''Ogasawara Maru'' is a 6700 ton vessel, 131m long, with a capacity of 1031 passengers.[8] To get to Hahajima, one must first get to Chichijima, and then cross via the liner ''Hahajima Maru''.
Because a trip from the main Japanese islands to the Ogasawaras is very difficult, when people get severely ill or otherwise have an emergency situation, word is conveyed to Iwo Jima Japan Maritime Self Defense Force post, and a helicopter is sent to the islands. Emergencies can also be handled from the main Japanese islands by airplanes of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, or the Maritime Self Defense Force base in Iwakuni can convey evacuees to the main islands by a seaplane, the ''ShinMaywa US-1''. This seaplane is also used to transport the governor of Tokyo and other VIPs.
Ogasawara Village operates a bus service on Chichijima and elderly passengers may use a "silver pass". There is also a sightseeing taxi service, a rental car company, motorized scooter rental services and a bike rental service, as well as other amenities. Bringing one's own automobile onto the island is extremely difficult and costly.
The world's first 'techno superliner', the ''Super Liner Ogasawara'' (which was to be commissioned in 2006), with a maximum speed of 70 km/h, 14,500 tons gross tonnage, was expected to shorten the voyage to Ogasawara to about 17 hours carrying up to 740 passengers.[9] However, the project was canceled in July 2005 due to rising fuel prices, and the loss of ¥2 billion[10].
The Ogasawara Islands have no airport and there is no prospect for one being constructed. However, there was talk for several decades of building one. Anijima and Chichijima was both once designated possible construction sites, but because there are numerous valuable, rare or endangered plant species forming a unique ecosystem in the vicinity of the proposed sites, issues of nature conservation were raised. Although construction of an airport was desired by some, a desire to keep the natural beauty of the islands untouched created a movement to block it. The airport issue was quite controversial on the islands.
The Ogasawara Islands were formed around 48 million years ago. They are a part of an island arc known geologically as a ''fore arc''. They lie above a subduction zone between the Pacific Plate and the Philippine Plate. The Pacific Plate is subducting under the Philippine Plate, which creates an oceanic trench to the east of the islands. The crust of the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands was formed by volcanic activity when subduction began 45–50 million years ago, and is composed mostly of an andesitic volcanic rock called boninite, which is rich in magnesium oxide, chromium, and silicon dioxide. The Ogasawara Islands may represent the exposed parts of an ophiolite that has not yet been emplaced on oceanic crust. The rocks of the Volcano Islands are much younger; Iwo Jima is a dormant volcano characterized by rapid uplift and several hot springs.
Most of the islands have steep shorelines, often with sea cliffs ranging from 50 to 100 meters in height, but the islands are also fringed with coral reefs and have many beaches.
The Ogasawara Islands form a distinct subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion, with a high degree of biodiversity and endemism. The islands are home to about 500 plant species, of which 43% are endemic. The forests are of three main types:
★ Type I: '''Elaeocarpus-Ardisia'' mesic forest' is found in the moist lowland areas with deep soils. The forests have a closed canopy with a height of about 15 meters, dominated by ''Ardisia sieboldii''. ''Elaeocarpus photiniaefolius'', ''Pisonia umbellifera'', and ''Pouteria obovata'' are other important canopy species. These forests were almost completely destroyed by clearing for agriculture before 1945.
★ Type II: '''Distylium-Raphiolepis-Schima'' dry forest' is found in drier lowland and upland sites with shallower soils. It is also a closed-canopy forest, with a 4 to 8 meter canopy comprised mostly of ''Distylium lepidotum'', ''Rhaphiolepis integerrima'', ''Schima mertensiana'', ''Pouteria obovata'', and ''Syzygium buxifolium''. The Type II forests can be further subdivided into:
★
★ Type IIa: '''Distylium-Schima'' dry forest' occurs in cloudy upland areas with fine-textured soils. These forests contain many rare and endemic species, with ''Pandanus boninensis'' and ''Syzygium buxifolium'' as the predominant trees.
★
★ Type IIb: '''Raphiolepsis-Livistona'' dry forest' is found in upland areas with few clouds and rocky soils. ''Rhaphiolepis integerrima'' is the dominant tree species, along with the fan palm ''Livistona chinensis'' var. ''bonensis'', ''Pandanus boninensis'' and ''Ochrosia nakaiana''.
★ Type III: '''Distylium-Pouteria'' scrub forest' is found on windy and dry mountain ridges and exposed sea cliffs. These forests have the highest species diversity on the islands. ''Distylium lepidotum'' and ''Pouteria obovata'' are the dominant species, growing from 0.5 to 1.5 meters tall. Other common shrubs are ''Myrsine okabeana'', ''Symplocos kawakamii'', and ''Pittosporum parvifolium''.
Several bird species are or were endemic to the islands, including the extinct Japanese Woodpigeon (''Columba janthina'') and the Vulnerable Bonin White-eye (''Apalopteron familiare''), formerly known as "Bonin Honeyeater".
Flora has evolved differently on each of the islands. The Ogasawara Islands are sometimes referred to as the Galapagos of the Orient.[11]
1. Was Marcus Island Discovered by Bernardo de la Torre in 1543?, , Bernhard, Welsch, Journal of Pacific History,
2. The History of the Bonin Islands from the Year 1827 to the Year 1876, , Lionel Berners, Cholmondeley, CONSTABLE & CO. LTD., ,
3. 父島の宿
4. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship ''Blossom'', under the command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N., F.R.S. &c. in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28, , Frederick William, Beechey, H. Colburn and R. Bentley, ,
5. Ogasawara Islands - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
6. Japanese Researchers Capture Giant Squid
7. Macross Compendium Atlas Listing
8. おがさわら丸 (Ogasawara Maru)
9. Super High Speed Ship (Techno Super Liner) for Ogasawara Line Naming and Launching Ceremony
10. Japan pulls plug on Techno Superliner
11.
★ Kublin, Hyman. (1947): ''The Bonin Islands, 1543–1875.'' PhD thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
★ Muroga, Nobuo. (1967): Geographical exploration by the Japanese. ''In:'' : ''The Pacific Basin: A history of its geographical exploration''. New York.
★ Extreme points of Japan
★ Bonin Information Service
★ The Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands Language and Culture Site
★ Ogasawara Village (Japanese)
★ Ogasawara Channel (Japanese)
★ Ogasawara subtropical moist forests (World Wildlife Fund)
The Ogasawara Islands, south of Japan
The only inhabited islands are Chichi-jima (父島) and Haha-jima (母島). These islands form the Ogasawara Village. There is also a military base on Iwo Jima with a staff of about 400.
Island subgroups
The Ogasawara Islands consists of four subgroups, including the Volcano Islands, which are listed along with their main islands:
★ Mukojima Group (聟島列島 ''Mukojima Rettō'') - formerly Parry Group
★
★ Mukojima (聟島, literally: ''Bridegroom Island'')
★
★ Yomejima (嫁島, literally: ''Bride Island'')
★
★ Nakōdo-jima or Nakadachijima (媒島, literally: ''Go-between Island'')
★
★ Kitanojima (北ノ島 or 北島, literally: ''Northern Island'')
★ Chichijima Group (父島列島 ''Chichijima Rettō'') - formerly Beechey Group
★
★ Chichijima (父島, literally: ''Father Island''),
★
★ Anijima (兄島, literally: ''Elder Brother Island'')
★
★ Otōtojima (弟島, literally: ''Younger Brother Island'')
★ Hahajima Group (母島列島 ''Hahajima Rettō'') - formerly Baily Group
★
★ Hahajima (母島, literally: ''Mother Island'')
★
★ Anejima (姉島, literally: ''Elder Sister Island'')
★
★ Imōtojima (妹島, literally: ''Younger Sister Island'')
★ Volcano Group (火山列島 ''Kazan Rettō'')
★
★ Kitaiōjima (北硫黄島 ''Kitaiōjima'', literally: ''North Sulphur Island'')
★
★ Iwojima/Iōtō (硫黄島 ''Iōjima'', literally: ''Sulphur Island'')
★
★ Minamiiōjima (南硫黄島 ''Minamiiōjima'', literally: ''South Sulphur Island'')
★ Single Isolated Island, west of Hahajima Group and North of Volcano Group:
★
★ Nishino shima (西之島, literally: ''Western Island'', also: Rosario Island)
★ Isolated Remote Islands, not geographically but administratively part of Ogasawara Islands
★
★ Okinotorishima (沖ノ鳥島 or 沖鳥島, literally: ''Remote Bird Island'')
★
★ Minamitorishima (南鳥島, literally: ''Southern Bird Island'', also: Marcus Island)
The southernmost (uninhabited) group is known as the 'Volcano Islands'. 700 km further south is Okino Torishima, and 1,900 km further east is Minami Torishima.
History
Discovery and colonization
The first European discovery of the islands is said to have taken place in 1543, by the Spanish explorer Bernardo de la Torre.[1] It is also claimed that Ogasawara Sadayori, a samurai, discovered the islands in 1592. The islands were granted to him as a fief by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.[2] The islands remained uninhabited until Nathaniel Savory, an American, landed on the island of Chichijima in 1830 and formed the first colony there.2 In 1853, Commodore Perry visited the islands and bought the islands from Savory for $50.2 To date, Nathaniel's descendants still live on the island.[3]
These groups were collectively called ''Islas del Arzobispo'' ("Archbishop Islands") in Spanish sources of the 18th-19th century. Japanese maps at the time seem to have been rather inaccurate and therefore considered by some[4] to be deliberately misleading. It is thought that this was an attempt to discourage colonization attempts by foreign nations. Frederick William Beechey used the Spanish name as late as 1831, and believed that the Japanese word "Boninsima" referred to entirely different islands.
World War II to present
In World War II, most of the inhabitants were evacuated to the mainland. There was a Japanese military base on Chichijima, whose officer in charge, Major Matoba, was known for performing sadistic acts (including cannibalism) on prisoners of war, and was executed for his crimes after the war. However, other officers on the island disagreed with his methods. Future President George H. W. Bush's plane crashed in the ocean near Chichijima, but he was rescued by an American submarine. The Battle of Iwo Jima, one of the fiercest battles of World War II, was fought here in 1945.
The islands were occupied by the U.S. Navy from 1945, at which point the inhabitants who were western in descent were allowed back on the island. The islands were returned to Japan in 1968, when the Japanese evacuees were finally allowed to return.
Now, nearly all of the inhabitants, including those of Western ancestry, are Japanese citizens and the Japanese language is used. During the nineteenth century, research points to the existence of an English-lexified pidgin/creole on the islands. During the twentieth century, islanders of Western descent increasingly mixed Japanese with island English, resulting in a "Mixed Language" which can still be heard among these islanders today. Younger speakers are monolingual in variety of Japanese closely resembling the Tokyo standard. A bilingual dictionary, ''Talking Dictionary of the Bonin Islands Language (with CD-ROM)'', edited by Daniel Long and Naoyuki Hashimoto, was published in 2005.
A 25m-diameter radio telescope is located in Chichijima, which is one of the stations of the VERA (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry) project, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
Name
In Japanese, the archipelago is called . The Romanized name is Bonin Islands, which is an older reading of 無人 (''mujin''), meaning 'no people' or 'uninhabited.'
Recent developments
Japan's Ministry of the Environment and Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries have entered the Ogasawara Islands as a candidate World Heritage Site on the premise that the islands meet the three listing criteria for geology, ecosystems, and biodiversity.[5]
The giant squid (genus ''Architeuthis'') was filmed off the Ogasawara Islands for the first time in the wild on September 27, 2005, and was captured in December of 2006.[6]
Fictional references
The Ogasawara Islands have been referenced in a number of works of fiction. The Sevii Islands from Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green are based on the Bonin Islands. In the Godzilla films Monster Island is sometimes located in the chain. In an English-dubbed version, it is referred to as "Ogasawara Island" as if it were a lone island of that name. In the television series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, a fictional island in the chain, South Ataria Island (which would have laid at the southernmost position in the chain, surpassing Minami Iwo Jima), is the landing site of the SDF-1 Macross.[7]
Transportation
One can get from the main Japanese islands to Chichijima by way of the ''Ogasawara Maru'' liner, run by Ogasawara Marine Transportation. The boat leaves from Takeshiba port in Tokyo Bay, and the trip takes around 25.5 hours (in good weather). There are four or five crossings each month. The ''Ogasawara Maru'' is a 6700 ton vessel, 131m long, with a capacity of 1031 passengers.[8] To get to Hahajima, one must first get to Chichijima, and then cross via the liner ''Hahajima Maru''.
Because a trip from the main Japanese islands to the Ogasawaras is very difficult, when people get severely ill or otherwise have an emergency situation, word is conveyed to Iwo Jima Japan Maritime Self Defense Force post, and a helicopter is sent to the islands. Emergencies can also be handled from the main Japanese islands by airplanes of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, or the Maritime Self Defense Force base in Iwakuni can convey evacuees to the main islands by a seaplane, the ''ShinMaywa US-1''. This seaplane is also used to transport the governor of Tokyo and other VIPs.
Ogasawara Village operates a bus service on Chichijima and elderly passengers may use a "silver pass". There is also a sightseeing taxi service, a rental car company, motorized scooter rental services and a bike rental service, as well as other amenities. Bringing one's own automobile onto the island is extremely difficult and costly.
Issues with improved transportation
The world's first 'techno superliner', the ''Super Liner Ogasawara'' (which was to be commissioned in 2006), with a maximum speed of 70 km/h, 14,500 tons gross tonnage, was expected to shorten the voyage to Ogasawara to about 17 hours carrying up to 740 passengers.[9] However, the project was canceled in July 2005 due to rising fuel prices, and the loss of ¥2 billion[10].
The Ogasawara Islands have no airport and there is no prospect for one being constructed. However, there was talk for several decades of building one. Anijima and Chichijima was both once designated possible construction sites, but because there are numerous valuable, rare or endangered plant species forming a unique ecosystem in the vicinity of the proposed sites, issues of nature conservation were raised. Although construction of an airport was desired by some, a desire to keep the natural beauty of the islands untouched created a movement to block it. The airport issue was quite controversial on the islands.
Geology
Formation
The Ogasawara Islands were formed around 48 million years ago. They are a part of an island arc known geologically as a ''fore arc''. They lie above a subduction zone between the Pacific Plate and the Philippine Plate. The Pacific Plate is subducting under the Philippine Plate, which creates an oceanic trench to the east of the islands. The crust of the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands was formed by volcanic activity when subduction began 45–50 million years ago, and is composed mostly of an andesitic volcanic rock called boninite, which is rich in magnesium oxide, chromium, and silicon dioxide. The Ogasawara Islands may represent the exposed parts of an ophiolite that has not yet been emplaced on oceanic crust. The rocks of the Volcano Islands are much younger; Iwo Jima is a dormant volcano characterized by rapid uplift and several hot springs.
Most of the islands have steep shorelines, often with sea cliffs ranging from 50 to 100 meters in height, but the islands are also fringed with coral reefs and have many beaches.
Ogasawara subtropical moist forests
The Ogasawara Islands form a distinct subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion, with a high degree of biodiversity and endemism. The islands are home to about 500 plant species, of which 43% are endemic. The forests are of three main types:
★ Type I: '''Elaeocarpus-Ardisia'' mesic forest' is found in the moist lowland areas with deep soils. The forests have a closed canopy with a height of about 15 meters, dominated by ''Ardisia sieboldii''. ''Elaeocarpus photiniaefolius'', ''Pisonia umbellifera'', and ''Pouteria obovata'' are other important canopy species. These forests were almost completely destroyed by clearing for agriculture before 1945.
★ Type II: '''Distylium-Raphiolepis-Schima'' dry forest' is found in drier lowland and upland sites with shallower soils. It is also a closed-canopy forest, with a 4 to 8 meter canopy comprised mostly of ''Distylium lepidotum'', ''Rhaphiolepis integerrima'', ''Schima mertensiana'', ''Pouteria obovata'', and ''Syzygium buxifolium''. The Type II forests can be further subdivided into:
★
★ Type IIa: '''Distylium-Schima'' dry forest' occurs in cloudy upland areas with fine-textured soils. These forests contain many rare and endemic species, with ''Pandanus boninensis'' and ''Syzygium buxifolium'' as the predominant trees.
★
★ Type IIb: '''Raphiolepsis-Livistona'' dry forest' is found in upland areas with few clouds and rocky soils. ''Rhaphiolepis integerrima'' is the dominant tree species, along with the fan palm ''Livistona chinensis'' var. ''bonensis'', ''Pandanus boninensis'' and ''Ochrosia nakaiana''.
★ Type III: '''Distylium-Pouteria'' scrub forest' is found on windy and dry mountain ridges and exposed sea cliffs. These forests have the highest species diversity on the islands. ''Distylium lepidotum'' and ''Pouteria obovata'' are the dominant species, growing from 0.5 to 1.5 meters tall. Other common shrubs are ''Myrsine okabeana'', ''Symplocos kawakamii'', and ''Pittosporum parvifolium''.
Several bird species are or were endemic to the islands, including the extinct Japanese Woodpigeon (''Columba janthina'') and the Vulnerable Bonin White-eye (''Apalopteron familiare''), formerly known as "Bonin Honeyeater".
Flora
Flora has evolved differently on each of the islands. The Ogasawara Islands are sometimes referred to as the Galapagos of the Orient.[11]
References
1. Was Marcus Island Discovered by Bernardo de la Torre in 1543?, , Bernhard, Welsch, Journal of Pacific History,
2. The History of the Bonin Islands from the Year 1827 to the Year 1876, , Lionel Berners, Cholmondeley, CONSTABLE & CO. LTD., ,
3. 父島の宿
4. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's ship ''Blossom'', under the command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N., F.R.S. &c. in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28, , Frederick William, Beechey, H. Colburn and R. Bentley, ,
5. Ogasawara Islands - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
6. Japanese Researchers Capture Giant Squid
7. Macross Compendium Atlas Listing
8. おがさわら丸 (Ogasawara Maru)
9. Super High Speed Ship (Techno Super Liner) for Ogasawara Line Naming and Launching Ceremony
10. Japan pulls plug on Techno Superliner
11.
★ Kublin, Hyman. (1947): ''The Bonin Islands, 1543–1875.'' PhD thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
★ Muroga, Nobuo. (1967): Geographical exploration by the Japanese. ''In:'' : ''The Pacific Basin: A history of its geographical exploration''. New York.
See also
★ Extreme points of Japan
External links
★ Bonin Information Service
★ The Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands Language and Culture Site
★ Ogasawara Village (Japanese)
★ Ogasawara Channel (Japanese)
★ Ogasawara subtropical moist forests (World Wildlife Fund)
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