Japan
31°00′N 130°00′E
Mishima Islands
Part of Satsunan Islands
Chart
Major islands
Kuroshima
- Area
- 15.4 km²
- High point
- 620 m
Kuroshima (黒島), is one of the Satsunan Islands, usually classed with the Ōsumi Islands, belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. 37 km2 in area, has a population of 199 people. The island can only be reached by ferry service to the city of Kagoshima on the mainland, as there is no airport.
Iōjima
- Area
- 11.6 km²
- High point
- 704 m
ma]), also known as Satsuma Iōjima (薩摩硫黄島), Satsuma-Iwo Jima or Tokara Iōjima (吐噶喇硫黄島), is one of the Satsunan Islands, usually classed with the Ōsumi Islands, belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Along with Takeshima and Kuroshima, it makes up the three-island village of Mishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
Takeshima
- Area
- 4.2 km²
- High point
- 220 m
Takeshima (竹島), is one of the Ryukyu Islands, usually classed with the Ōsumi Islands belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. 2 km2 in area, has a population of 78 persons. The island can only be reached by ferry service to the city of Kagoshima on the mainland, as there is no airport. Travel time is about 3 hours.
Islets
- Shōwa Iōjima21 m · 0.06 km²
- Denshima4 m · 0.6 ha
- Unnamed island2 m · 0.6 ha
- 長瀬1 m · 0.3 ha
- Unnamed island15 m · 0.3 ha
- Takejimanou Se0.3 ha
- Unnamed island4 m · 0.3 ha
- Unnamed island0.3 ha
- Unnamed island15 m · 0.2 ha
- 丸瀬0.2 ha
- Nishinotategami4 m · 0.2 ha
- Unnamed island11 m · 0.1 ha
Rocks & skerries
- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
- Hisaga Se<0.1 ha
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- Kutsu Se<0.1 ha
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- Higashinotategami<0.1 ha
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Figures
Comparative heights
- Iōjima: 704 m
- Kuroshima: 620 m
- Takeshima: 220 m
- Shōwa Iōjima: 21 m
- Denshima: 4 m
- Nishinotategami: 4 m
- 長瀬: 1 m
To the same scale
Islands by area
| Kuroshima | 15.4 km² |
| Iōjima | 11.6 km² |
| Takeshima | 4.2 km² |
| Shōwa Iōjima | 0.06 km² |
| Denshima | 0.6 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.6 ha |
| 長瀬 | 0.3 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.3 ha |
| Takejimanou Se | 0.3 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.3 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.3 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.2 ha |
| 丸瀬 | 0.2 ha |
| Nishinotategami | 0.2 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.1 ha |
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| Kutsu Se | <0.1 ha |
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Overlapping groups
Photographs
「フェリーみしま」の船上から望む「竹島」
Den-Shima island Aerial Photograph
薩摩硫黄島中心集落付近。右に稲村岳、左に矢筈山。岬橋より撮影。
鹿児島県三島村黒島の大里集落。黒島平和公園より撮影。
Sources
Facts
- Geometry, areas and high points: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Copernicus GLO-30, via Talus.
- Wikidata
Photographs
- Takeshima in Kagoshima Prefecture. ブルーノ・プラス / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Den-Shima island Aerial Photograph. 国土交通省 / Attribution
- Central village of Satsuma Iojima. 名古屋太郎 / CC BY-SA 3.0
- Kuroshima Osato village. LT sfm / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Higashi-Onsen Mishima Village, Kagoshima Prefecture Wikivoyage banner. けんみんたろう / CC BY 3.0