is the largest and southernmost of the
Gotō Islands
The are Japanese islands in the East China Sea, off the western coast of Kyūshū. They are part of Nagasaki Prefecture.
Geography
There are 140 islands, including five main ones: , , , , and .
The group of islands runs approximately fr ...
in
Japan. It is part of the city of
Gotō in
Nagasaki Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Nagasaki Prefecture has a population of 1,314,078 (1 June 2020) and has a geographic area of 4,130 km2 (1,594 sq mi). Nagasaki Prefecture borders Saga Prefecture to the northeast.
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Gotō-Fukue Airport
, is a List of airports in Japan, third class airport located southwest of Gotō, Nagasaki, Gotō, Nagasaki Prefecture, off the western coast of Kyūshū, Japan. The airport also serves the city of Fukue, Nagasaki, Fukue. It is also known as a ...
is on this island. As of July 31, 2016, the population is 38,481.
Nagasakino Shima
Nagasaki's Shima
Climate
Fukue has a generally warm and very wet climate (Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...
''Cfa'') with hot and oppressively humid summers and cool, wet winters with practically no snowfall owing to the island’s southerly latitude. Despite this, during the winter months cold water transported south from the Sea of Okhotsk by the eastern side of the Siberian High
The Siberian High (also Siberian Anticyclone; russian: Азиатский антициклон (''Aziatsky antitsiklon'')) is a massive collection of cold dry air that accumulates in the northeastern part of Eurasia from September until April. It ...
makes for very gloomy weather with scarcely any more sunshine than the “San‘in” coast from Hagi to Wakkanai
' meaning "cold water river" is a city located in Sōya Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital of Sōya Subprefecture. It contains Japan's northernmost point, Cape Sōya, from which the Russian island of Sakhalin can be seen.
As of 1 ...
. Like the rest of Kyūshū, Fukue and the other Gotō Islands are prone to typhoon
A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere. This region is referred to as the Northwestern Pacific Basin, and is the most active tropical cyclone basin on Earth, accounting for a ...
s during summer and autumn which can give daily rainfalls as high as on 10 September 2005 and on 7 July 1987. The wettest month on record was July 1987 with and the driest was November 1971 with .
References
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Islands of Nagasaki Prefecture