North Iwo Jima

Kita- Iwo Jima (Japanese北 硫黄岛, Kita- iota, literally " North Sulfur Island" ) is a volcanic island south of the Japanese main islands in the Kazan RETTO ( volcanic islands ) of the Ogasawara Islands. As the entire island group, it is one administratively to the Prefecture Tokyo.

The uninhabited island is the heavily eroded summit of a stratovolcano, which ( according to other sources 804 m) protrudes 792 m from the sea. It covers an area of 5.57 km ² and lies 70 km north of Iwo Jima, the main island of the archipelago.

The island was inhabited in the past. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 the population of Kita Iwo Jima was 103 These civilian population was evacuated during the Second World War. On the east coast the place was Ishinomura (石 野村) and on the west coast Nishimura (西村). The previously unincorporated island in 1940 part of the newly formed community iota -mura and was finally incorporated in 1968 with this by Ogasawara- mura, when the islands were returned by the United States to Japan.

On 16 June 2007, the renaming of Kita- Iojima to Kita - iota, in which the customer reading was changed back to the earlier of岛On- reading took place.

The total solar eclipse of 22 July 2009, the island was the piece of land with the longest duration of totality (6 minutes and 34 seconds).