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Ogasawara Islands The Bonin Islands, also known as the , are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some directly south of Tokyo, Japan and northwest of Guam. The name "Bonin Islands" comes from the Japanese word ''bunin'' (an archaic readi ...

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Prefecture A prefecture (from the Latin ''Praefectura'') is an administrative jurisdiction traditionally governed by an appointed prefect. This can be a regional or local government subdivision in various countries, or a subdivision in certain international ...

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Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

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Ogasawara Subprefecture is a subprefecture of Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. The subprefecture covers the Ogasawara Archipelago and is coterminous with the village of Ogasawara. The prefectural government maintains a main office on Chichijima and a branch office on Hahaji ...

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in the

Mukojima Islands The Mukojima Islands ( ) – formerly known as the Parry Group – are a group of uninhabited small islands with a collective land area of 586 ha. They lie some 900–1,100 km south of Tokyo in the Bonin Islands group of the Nanpō Archipelag ...

(formerly known as the Parry Group), the northernmost island group of the

Bonin Islands The Bonin Islands, also known as the , are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some directly south of Tokyo, Japan and northwest of Guam. The name "Bonin Islands" comes from the Japanese word ''bunin'' (an archaic readi ...

, in the

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

of Ogasawara, Tokyo Metropolis. The entire island and its surrounding waters form part of

Ogasawara National Park is a national park in the Ogasawara Islands, located approximately one thousand kilometres to the south of Tokyo, Japan. The park was established in 1972 within the municipality of Ogasawara, itself part of Tokyo. In 2011, the Ogasawara Island ...

, while an area of including surrounding reefs forms part of the Ogaswara Islands

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Geography

The highest point on the island (and the Muko-jima Group) is , at .

Natural history

The island is a breeding ground for the

brown booby The brown booby (''Sula leucogaster'') is a large seabird of the booby family Sulidae, of which it is perhaps the most common and widespread species. It has a pantropical range, which overlaps with that of other booby species. The gregarious brow ...

(''Sula leucogaster'') and black-footed albatross (''Phoebastria nigripes''). Vegetation, including ''

Pandanus boninensis ''Pandanus boninensis'' is an Asian species of plant that is endemic to and common in the ''Distylium''-''Schima'' dry forests and ''Raphiolepis''-'' Livistona'' dry forests of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. It has aerial prop roots and grows on r ...

'', '' Lobelia boninensis'', and '' Cirsium boninense'', has been recovering since the eradication of goats introduced when the island was inhabited between the 1880s and 1944, and feral once the island was again uninhabited.

Related maps and images

Series L771, U.S. Army Map Service, 1945 (Nakodo Shima Sheet 6529 IV).jpg, US AMS 1945 map of the southern islands in the

Nakoudo-jima island - panoramio.jpg, View of Nakōdo-jima from the sea

References

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