Yonaguni

Yonaguni (Japanese与 那 国 岛, -jima ) is a facility located in the extreme southwest of Japan in the East China Sea island, only 110 km away from Taiwan. The western tip of the island, Cape Irizaki, is the westernmost point of Japan.

Not far from Yonaguni a lying off the island of terraced monolith was found in the 1980s, the awakened because of its geometry and shape appears to have been created by man and which has become known as the Yonaguni Monument.

Geography

Yonaguni is counted among the Yaeyama Islands and has an area of ​​28.91 km ². The population of the island at 31 March 2011 1571 people in 785 households. The average annual temperature is about 23.9 ° C and the annual rainfall about 3,000 mm.

On the island there is a small town ( chō ) Yonaguni which belongs to the Yaeyama District of Okinawa Prefecture.

History

Trade relations with Okinawa Honto are occupied for the 14th century. Yonaguni was independent under the very existence of disputed, gigantic leader of San-ai Isoba to 1522. After that they belonged to the Kingdom Ryūkyū and in 1879 with its inclusion in Japan also recorded. From 1945 to 1972, she was occupied by the United States.

Underwater Pyramids

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1985 large-scale structures have been discovered with traces of flora, fauna and stalactites of the Japanese divers Kihachiro Aratake on the ocean floor off Yonaguni. The structure of the monolith is continuous at right angles. It seems as if carefully planned steps and stairs carved into the rock. It is disputed whether the monolith that resembles a pyramid, was formed by natural erosion over thousands of years or whether an early culture has processed the rocks.

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