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Ōsumi Islands
大隅諸島
Part of Satsunan Islands
The Ōsumi Islands (大隅諸島, Ōsumi-shotō) is an archipelago in the Ryukyu Archipelago, and are the northernmost group of the Ryukyu Islands, The chain extends from the southern tip of Kyushu to Yakushima. Administratively, the group belongs within Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
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The Ōsumi Islands (大隅諸島, Ōsumi-shotō) is an archipelago in the Ryukyu Archipelago, and are the northernmost group of the Ryukyu Islands, The chain extends from the southern tip of Kyushu to Yakushima. Administratively, the group belongs within Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
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Census, cataloged
- Major islands3
- Minor islands4
- Islets55
- Rocks & skerries694
Major islands
Yakushima
- Area
- 504 km²
- High point
- 1,936 m
Yakushima (屋久島) is one of the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The island, 504.88 km2 (194.94 sq mi) in area, has a population of 11,858. It is accessible by hydrofoil ferry, car ferry, or by air to Yakushima Airport.
Tanegashima
- Area
- 445 km²
- High point
- 238 m
ŋä̀-]) is one of the Ōsumi Islands belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. 81 sq mi) in area, is the second largest of the Ōsumi Islands, and has a population of 33,000 people. Access to the island is by ferry, or by air to New Tanegashima Airport.
Kuchinoerabu Island
- Area
- 35.8 km²
- High point
- 649 m
Kuchinoerabu-jima (口永良部島), is one of the Satsunan Islands, usually classed with the Ōsumi Islands belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. 69 sq mi) in area, has a population of 147. The island can only be reached by boat as it has no airport.
Minor islands
Rocks & skerries
On the chart above, at its closest zooms.
Listing 7 of 756; the rest are on the chart.
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Comparative heights
- Yakushima: 1,936 m
- Iōjima: 704 m
- Kuchinoerabu: 649 m
- Kuroshima: 620 m
- Tanegashima: 238 m
- Takeshima: 220 m
- Mageshima: 69 m
To the same scale
Islands by area
| Yakushima | 504 km² |
| Tanegashima | 445 km² |
| Kuchinoerabu Island | 35.8 km² |
| Kuroshima | 15.4 km² |
| Iōjima | 11.6 km² |
| Mageshima | 8.2 km² |
| Takeshima | 4.2 km² |
Overlapping groups
Photographs
Kuchinoerabujima island from Mt.Nagatadake
Den-Shima island Aerial Photograph
A waterfall and red bridge at Yakushima Botanical Research Park.
View of Earth taken during ISS Expedition 65.
Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center / Public domain
This Landsat 8 satellite image of the Ōsumi Islands in Japan. Tanegashima (right side), Mageshima (left of Tanegashima), Yakushima (bottom center), Kuchinoerabu-jima (bottom left side), Iōjima (top left side), Takeshima (right of Iōjima).
Osumi Islands, Satsuma Penninsula and Osumi Penninsula, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan.
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Sources
Facts
Photographs
- Kuchinoerabujima island from Mt.Nagatadake. As6022014 / CC BY-SA 3.0
- Den-Shima island Aerial Photograph. 国土交通省 / Attribution
- Yakushima Botanical Research Park - Yakushima839. lumoplank / CC0
- ISS065-E-1081 - View of Earth. Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center / Public domain
- Osumi-Islands-Tanegashima-Japan. NASA/USGS; Mike Taylor / Public domain
- Osumi Islands ISS045. Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth." / Public domain
- エブリワン 2011 コンビニ (6093945040). くーさん / CC BY 2.0