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Created page with "*''Other Names'': 硫黄島 ''(iou shima / iou jima)'', トカラ硫黄島 ''(Tokara iou shima)'' *''Japanese'': 硫黄鳥島 ''(Iou Torishima)'' Iô Torishima is an island i..."
*''Other Names'': 硫黄島 ''(iou shima / iou jima)'', トカラ硫黄島 ''(Tokara iou shima)''
*''Japanese'': 硫黄鳥島 ''(Iou Torishima)''
Iô Torishima is an island in the [[Tokara Islands]] group, located to the south of the [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]] peninsula of [[Kyushu]], and west of [[Tanegashima]]. Though surrounded by islands which are administered as part of [[Kagoshima prefecture]], Iô Torishima is administered as part of the city of [[Kumejima]], [[Okinawa prefecture]].
A major source of [[sulfur]] for the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], the island's name literally means "sulfur bird island." It is also known simply as Iôjima ("sulfur island"), and as Tokara Iôjima, to distinguish it from the [[Iwo Jima|island of the same name]] famous for the Battle of Iwo Jima.
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==References==
*Richard Pearson, ''Ancient Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2013), 8.
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Geographic Locations]]
*''Japanese'': 硫黄鳥島 ''(Iou Torishima)''
Iô Torishima is an island in the [[Tokara Islands]] group, located to the south of the [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]] peninsula of [[Kyushu]], and west of [[Tanegashima]]. Though surrounded by islands which are administered as part of [[Kagoshima prefecture]], Iô Torishima is administered as part of the city of [[Kumejima]], [[Okinawa prefecture]].
A major source of [[sulfur]] for the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], the island's name literally means "sulfur bird island." It is also known simply as Iôjima ("sulfur island"), and as Tokara Iôjima, to distinguish it from the [[Iwo Jima|island of the same name]] famous for the Battle of Iwo Jima.
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==References==
*Richard Pearson, ''Ancient Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2013), 8.
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Geographic Locations]]