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   Oct 22, 2024 · Iwo Jima is located about 760 miles (1,220 km) from Tokyo. It is a small island covering an area of about 8 square miles (20 square km) and spanning about 5 miles (8 km) in length. A volcanic island, Iwo Jima is dotted with hundreds of caves and is covered with volcanic sand and ash.

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   80 km (43 nautical miles, 50 mi) north of the island is North Iwo Jima (北硫黄島, Kita-Iō-tō, literally: "North Sulfur Island") and 59 km (37 mi; 32 nmi) south is South Iwo Jima (南硫黄島, Minami-Iō-tō, "South Sulfur Island"); these three islands make up the Volcano Islands group of the Ogasawara Islands.

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   Iwojima is a volcanic island in Japan, part of the Volcano Islands (the southern part of the Ogasawara Islands), approximately 650 nautical miles (1200 km) south of Tokyo. It is famous as a site of a battle in February and March, 1945, between the United States and Japan during World War II.

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   Iwo Jima. Type: Island. Description: island of the Japanese Volcano Islands chain south of the Ogasawara Islands, site of the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. Categories: volcanic island, coastline, locality and landform. Location: Tokyo, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia. View on Open­Street­Map.

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   Oct 25, 2024 · Iwo Jima, island that is part of the Volcano Islands archipelago, far southern Japan. The island has been widely known as Iwo Jima, its conventional name, since World War II (1939–45). However, Japan officially changed the name to its Japanese form, Iō-tō (Iō Island), in 2007.

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   Where is Iwo Jima?

   • Iwo Jima, now officially romanized Iōtō, is one of the Japanese Volcano Islands, which lie south of the Bonin Islands and together with them make up the Ogasawara Archipelago. Photo: NASA, Public domain. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

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   Where is Iwojima located?

   • Iwojima is a volcanic island in Japan, part of the Volcano Islands (the southern part of the Ogasawara Islands), approximately 650 nautical miles (1200 km) south of Tokyo. It is famous as a site of a battle in February and March, 1945, between the United States and Japan during World War II.

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   Is Iwo Jima the same as Iejima?

   • Not to be confused with Iejima. Iwo Jima, officially romanized and pronounced Iōtō (硫 （い） 黄 （おう） 島 （とう）, literally: " Sulfur Island"), [ 2 ] is one of the Japanese Volcano Islands, which lie south of the Bonin Islands and together with them make up the Ogasawara Archipelago. Together with the Izu Islands, they make up Japan's Nanpō Islands.

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   Is Iwo Jima a volcano?

   • A volcanic island, Iwo Jima is dotted with hundreds of caves and is covered with volcanic sand and ash. At the southwest tip of the island is Mount Suribachi, a largely dormant volcano that provides a sweeping view of most of the island. Two beaches flank the northwest and southeast parts of the western sector.

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   What is the highest point on Iwo Jima?

   • Named after a Japanese grinding bowl, the summit of Mount Suribachi is the highest point on the island. Iwo Jima is unusually flat and featureless for a volcanic island. Suribachi is the only obvious volcanic feature, as the island is only the resurgent dome (raised centre) of a larger submerged volcanic caldera surrounding the island. [ 1 ]

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   Where was the Battle of Iwo Jima fought?

   • Battle of Iwo Jima (February 19–March 16, 1945), World War II battle fought between the United States and Japan over a strategically important island some 760 miles (1,220 km) south of Tokyo. A photo of Marines raising the American flag atop Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi became one of the Pacific War’s iconic images.

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9. www.ibiblio.org › wwii-pac › iwojimaIwo Jima Operation -- Maps and Wide-Area Aerial Views of Iwo ...

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   Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands. Fires and explosions on Iwo Jima's Airfield # 1, resulting from a bombardment delivered by heavy cruisers of Cruiser Division Ten, 2 July 1944. Note the tightly grouped aircraft parked in the center of the image. Airfield # 2 is in the upper right of the photograph.