Bonin Islands

...area: 106.1 km2. The three islands of Mukojima, Chichijima, and Hahajima are sometimes collectively called the Ogasawara Islands, and since the early Meiji period they have also been called the Bonin Islands (a foreign pronunciation of "uninhabited islands"). The Ogasawara Islands were formed by the uplift and dissection of a submarine volcano from the Paleogene period, and the Iwo Islands and Nishinoshima are volcanic islands that began activity in the latter half of the Quaternary period.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Bonin Islands" is listed below.

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…面積106.1km2。聟島，父島，母島の3列島を合わせて小笠原群島と呼ぶこともあり，明治初年以来ボニン･アイランズBonin Islands(〈無人島〉の外国人なまり)とも呼ばれていた。この小笠原群島は古第三紀の海底火山がその後に隆起，開析されたもので，硫黄列島と西之島は第四紀後半に活動を始めた火山島である。…

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