Yaeyama Islands - incl. Ishigaki Island, Taketomi Island, Kohama Island, Kuroshima, Hatoma Island, Iriomote-jima, Hateruma Island, and Yonaguni Island The fifty-five major islands in the chain constitute a total land area of 1,193 square miles, and are comprised of a series of seamounts and...
Related to Ryukyu Island:Hokkaido,Nansei Islands Ryu·kyu Islands (rē-o͞o′kyo͞o′, ryo͞o′kyo͞o) An island group of southwest Japan extending about 1,135 km (705 mi) between Kyushu and Taiwan. The archipelago was incorporated into Japan in 1879 and returned to Japanese soverei...
[[Ishigaki Island]], [[Taketomi Island]], [[Kohama Island]], [[Kuroshima (Yaeyama)|Kuroshima]], [[Hatoma Island]], [[Iriomote-jima]], [[Hateruma Island]], and [[Yonaguni Island]] The fifty-five major islands in the chain constitute a total land area of 1,193 square miles, and...
islands, with a total area of about 4,800 sq km. (In Japanese sources the name “Ryukyus” often refers only to the middle and southwestern segments of the island arc—that is, to 55 islands, with a total area of 2,400 sq km.) The largest islands are Okinawa and Amami-o-shima. ...
Ryukyu Islands, archipelago, extending some 700 miles (1,100 km) southwestward from the southern Japanese island of Kyushu to northeastern Taiwan. The archipelago defines the boundary between the East China Sea (west) and the Philippine Sea (east). With
"The connection between populations in the northern coastal regions of East Asia and ancient populations in the Ryukyu Islands remains unclear." The study, focusing on the ancient populations in the northern coastal regions of East Asia and radiating their surrounding northern inland and island populat...
The meaning of RYUKYU ISLANDS is chain of islands in the western Pacific Ocean extending between Kyushu, the southernmost main island of Japan, and Taiwan area about 850 square miles (2200 square kilometers), population 1,222,458.
The Ryukyu Islands (Amami Islands, Okinawa Islands, and Sakishima Islands) form an island arch situated at the southern end of the Japanese archipelago. In this area, numerous fossiliferous localities have been estimated to date from the end of the Pleistocene, which have yielded abundant ...
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Huge tsunami waves have repeatedly bombarded the southern end of the Ryukyu Islands (Miyako and Yaeyama Islands, southwestern Japan) at several-hundred-year intervals. Therefore, clarifying the islands’ paleotsunami history is important for risk assessm