Key facts
- Islands.name
- Okinotori
- Islands.image_name
- Okinotorishima20070602.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- Aerial photograph
- Islands.map_image
- Okinotorishima-en.svg
- Islands.native_name
- , Okino-Tori Islands, Parece Vela
- Islands.native_name_link
- Japanese language
- Islands.location
- Philippine Sea, Pacific Ocean
- Islands.total_islands
- 1 atoll with 2 islets
- Islands.area_footnotes
- Land area: Shoal area: 0.0085km2
- Islands.highest_mount
- unnamed point
- Islands.elevation_m
- 1.5
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- Prefecture
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- Tokyo
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
- Subprefecture
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Ogasawara Subprefecture
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_2
- Village
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_2
- Ogasawara
- Islands.population
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- reef
- Part of
- Ogasawara Archipelago
- Official name
- 沖ノ鳥島
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Ogasawara Village
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 0.008482
- Elevation
- 1.5
- Time zone
- Japan Standard Time
- Body of water
- Philippine Sea
- Image
- Okinotorishima20070602.jpg
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- Commons category
- Okinotorishima
- time of discovery or invention
- 1565-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Miguel López de Legazpi
- postal code
- 100-2100
- native label
- 沖ノ鳥島
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Geology
- Administration
- EEZ dispute
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|220px|Map of Okinotori
, or Parece Vela, is a coral reef, geologically an atoll, with two rocks enlarged with tetrapod-cement structures. It is administered by Japan with a total shoal area of and land area . Its dry land area is mostly made up by three concrete encasings and there is a stilt platform in the lagoon housing a research station. There is a third completely artificial tetrapod-cement islet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Okinotorishima” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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