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VOLCANO ISLANDS

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 192 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VOLCANO ISLANDS , three small islands in the western Pacific Ocean, S. of the Bonin Islands, forming See also:part of the See also:Japanese See also:empire (annexed in 1891). They are also known as the See also:Magellan See also:Archipelago, and in See also:Japan as Kwazan-retto (See also:series of volcanic islands). They are situated between 24° and 26° N. and 141° and 142° E. Their names are Kita-iwojima (Santo Alessandro), Iwo-jima (See also:Sulphur) and Minamiiwo-jima (Santo See also:Agostino). Kita-iwo-jima--which, as its name (kita) implies, is the most northerly of the three—rises 2520 ft. above the See also:water, and Minami-iwo-jima, the most southerly, to a height of 3021 11. The islands are not inhabited. With this See also:group is sometimes included another See also:island, Arzobispo, nearer the Bonin group.

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