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    The Bonin Islands, also known as the Ogasawara Islands (小笠原諸島), is a Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands located around 1...
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  • Bonin English, or the Bonin Islands language, is an English-based creole of the Ogasawara Islands (informally called Bonin Islands) south of Japan with...
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    (Nanpō Islands) Izu Shotō (Izu Islands) Ogasawara Guntō (Bonin Islands) Mukojima Rettō Chichijima Rettō Hahajima Rettō Kazan Rettō (Volcano Islands) Kita...
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    The Bonin Islands (Ogasawara Islands (小笠原群島, Ogasawara Guntō)) are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some 1,000 kilometres (540 nmi;...
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    populous island in the Bonin or Ogasawara Islands. Chichijima is about 240 km (150 mi) north of Iwo Jima. 23.5 km2 (9.1 sq mi) in size, the island is home...
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    Ogasawara Islands and belong to the municipality of Ogasawara, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. The islands are all active volcanoes lying atop the Izu–Bonin–Mariana...
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    renamed Anzio. As Anzio, the escort carrier took part in assaults on the Bonin Islands and Okinawa. Following the cessation of hostilities in 1945, Anzio was...
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  • Thumbnail for Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign
    Mariana Islands in 1944, US land-based and carrier-borne aircraft struck the Volcano and Bonin Islands. Haha-Jima and Chichi-Jima in the Bonin Islands and...
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    Ogasawara clan is inlinked to Japanese discovery of the Bonin Islands, and to Japan's claim over those islands which are now administratively considered part of...
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    Subtropical islands in the Australia/New Zealand region Lord Howe Island Norfolk Island Micronesia The Bonin Islands and Volcano Islands Marcus Island The Northern...
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    border is the second island chain to the east, comprising the Bonin Islands and Iwo Jima in the northeast, the Mariana Islands (including Guam, Saipan...
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    The Bonin white-eye (Apalopteron familiare) or meguro (メグロ) is a small songbird endemic to the Bonin Islands (Ogasawara Islands) of Japan. It is the only...
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    Mackay identified the Bonin Islands as its northernmost point, and Macquarie Island as its southernmost point. The Bonin Islands (adjacent to Micronesia)...
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  • Chichijima incident (category History of the Bonin Islands)
    Japanese soldiers killed eight American airmen on Chichi Jima, in the Bonin Islands, and cannibalized five of them. Nine American pilots escaped from their...
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    flying foxes. It is endemic to the Bonin Islands of Japan, including Chichijima and Hahajima; and the Iwo Islands, including North Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima...
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  • Thumbnail for Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc
    Tokyo, Japan, to beyond Guam, and includes the Izu Islands, the Bonin Islands, and the Mariana Islands; much more of the IBM arc system is submerged below...
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  • published the first English-language history of the Bonin Islands, now known as the Ogasawara Islands. Lionel Cholmondeley was descended from a younger...
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    In January 1861, "Kanrin Maru" was dispatched to the Bonin Islands, also known as Ogasawara Islands in Japanese. A navigator aboard the diplomatic mission...
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    lie some 900–1,100 km south of Tokyo in the Bonin Islands group of the Nanpō Archipelago of Japan. Islands in the group include Kitanojima, Mukojima, Nakōdo-jima...
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    subducted beneath the Philippine Sea Plate, creating the Izu Islands and Bonin Islands on the Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc system. It is 9,826 metres (32,238 ft) +/-...
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    The Bonin grosbeak or Bonin Islands grosbeak (Carpodacus ferreorostris) is an extinct finch. It is one of the diverse bird taxa that are vernacularly...
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    of the Izu and Ogasawara (also known as Bonin) island chains to the south of the Izu Peninsula. The islands consist of two towns and seven villages that...
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  • The Peculiar Case of the Bonin Islanders". The Asian-Pacific Journal. 16 (11). "Not everyone is celebrating the Ogasawara Islands' anniversary". Japan Times...
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    the Izu Islands, the Bonin Islands, and the Mariana Islands, other geologists exclude them. Antarctica Antarctic Peninsula South Sandwich Islands Andes...
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    Islands: The Wreck of the Strathmore in 1875. Geography portal Islands portal List of uninhabited regions List of islands by population Bonin Islands...
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  • Flyboys: A True Story of Courage (category History of the Bonin Islands)
    five of eight American POWs on the Pacific island of Chichi-jima, one of the Ogasawara Islands (Bonin Islands). This event is now known as the Chichijima...
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    Tori-shima Udonejima Ogasawara Islands (Bonin Islands) Mukojima Rettō Chichijima Hahajima Mukojima Kazan Rettō (Volcano Islands) Nishinoshima Kita Iwo Jima...
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    Ogasawara, Tokyo (category Bonin Islands)
    Subprefecture, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan, that governs the Bonin Islands, Volcano Islands, and three remote islands (Nishinoshima, Minamitorishima and Okinotorishima)...
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    The Bonin wood pigeon (Columba versicolor) was a pigeon endemic to Nakodo-jima and Chichi-jima in the Ogasawara Islands, south of Japan. It is known from...
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    island chain which is formed by Japan's Bonin Islands and Volcano Islands, in addition to the Mariana Islands (most notably Guam, an unincorporated American...
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