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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A group of Japanese islands in the northwest Pacific Ocean north of the Mariana Islands. Annexed by Japan in the late 1800s, the islands were administered by the United States from 1945 until 1968.
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- noun a group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the Marianas
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Area: total: 377,835 sq km land: 374,744 sq km water: 3,091 sq km note: includes Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-gunto), Daito-shoto, Minami-jima, Okino-tori-shima, Ryukyu Islands (Nansei-shoto), and Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto)
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Japantotal: 377,835 sq km land: 374,744 sq km water: 3,091 sq km note: includes Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-gunto), Daito-shoto, Minami-jima, Okino-tori-shima, Ryukyu Islands (Nansei-shoto), and Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto)
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In addition to the four main islands (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu) Japan includes a number of smaller island groups, including the Ogasawara-shoto (the Bonin Islands and Iwo or Volcano Islands), Daito-shoto, Nansei-shoto (Ryukyu and Satsun Islands) and the Izu-shoto.
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There are two endemic genera, Dendrocacalia (Asteraceae) and Boninia (Rutaceae) that occur in both the Bonin and the Volcano Islands.
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One was Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands, where the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Marine Divisions would land on February 19, 1945.
Brotherhood of Heroes Bill Sloan 2005
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One was Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands, where the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Marine Divisions would land on February 19, 1945.
Brotherhood of Heroes Bill Sloan 2005
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Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto) water: 3,091 sq km land: 374,744 sq km
The 2004 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Why, it's liquid carbon dioxide, venting off an underwater hot spring connected to Eifuku volcano in Japan's Volcano Islands.
Boing Boing Maggie Koerth-Baker 2011
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In the Pacific theater of World War II, U.S. Marines hit the beach and charge over a dune on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands Feb. 19, 1945, the start of one of the deadliest battles of the war against Japan.
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Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as platoon leader attached to Company C, 5th Pioneer Battalion, 5th Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 26 March 1945.
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. Anonymous Blogger 2010
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