Hashima Island

Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, is an abandoned island about 15 kilometres from the centre of , Japan. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in .
  • Islet
  • …lies at an elevation of 16 metres (52 feet)
  • Description: abandoned island lying about 15 kilometres (9 miles) from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan. Abandoned concrete buildings and the surrounding sea wall.
  • Also known as
    “Battleship Island”
    “Gunkanjima”
    “Ha Sima”
    “Hashima”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Takashima Coal Mine.
was a coal mine in Japan, located… is situated 3½ km northeast of Hashima Island.

Hashima Island

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Latitude
32.62769° or 32° 37′ 40″ north
Longitude
129.73816° or 129° 44′ 17″ east
Open location code
8Q4FJPHQ+37
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Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­mine
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Hashima Island” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Ishulli Hashima”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة هاشيما”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة هشيمة”
  • Armenian: “Հաշիմա կղզի”
  • Armenian: “Հասիմա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Haşima adası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Haşima”
  • Basque: “Hashima uhartea”
  • Belarusian: “Хасіма”
  • Bengali: “হাশিমা দ্বীপ”
  • Bulgarian: “Хашима”
  • Catalan: “Illa d’Hashima”
  • Cebuano: “Ha-shima”
  • Central Bikol: “gunkanjima”
  • Central Bikol: “isla nin bapor-pangubat”
  • Central Bikol: “Isla nin Hashima”
  • Central Bikol: “puro nin Hashima”
  • Chinese: “端島”
  • Czech: “Hašima”
  • Dutch: “Hashima”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة هشيمه”
  • Esperanto: “Gunkanĝima”
  • Esperanto: “Gunkanjima”
  • Estonian: “Hashima saar”
  • Finnish: “Hashima”
  • French: “Gunkanjima”
  • French: “Ha-shima”
  • French: “Hashima”
  • French: “île Ha”
  • French: “île navire de guerre”
  • Galician: “Illa Hashima”
  • Georgian: “ჰაშიმა”
  • German: “Gunkanjima”
  • German: “Hashima”
  • Hebrew: “האשימה”
  • Hungarian: “Hasima”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Hashima”
  • Interlingua: “Insula de Hashima”
  • Irish: “Oileán Hashima”
  • Italian: “Hashima”
  • Japanese: “Ha-shima”
  • Japanese: “はしま”
  • Japanese: “端島”
  • Japanese: “軍艦島”
  • Korean: “군함도”
  • Korean: “하시마 섬”
  • Korean: “하시마(군함도)”
  • Korean: “하시마섬”
  • Literary Chinese: “端島”
  • Lithuanian: “Hašima”
  • Macedonian: “Хашима (остров)”
  • Macedonian: “Хашима”
  • Malay: “Pulau Hashima”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hashima”
  • Norwegian: “Hashima”
  • Persian: “جزیره هاشیما”
  • Polish: “Hashima”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Hashima”
  • Romanian: “Hashimajima”
  • Romanian: “Insula Hashima”
  • Russian: “Хасима”
  • Samogitian: “Hašėma”
  • Slovak: “Hašima (ostrov)”
  • Slovak: “Hašima”
  • Slovenian: “Gukandžima”
  • Slovenian: “Gukanjima”
  • Slovenian: “Hashima”
  • Slovenian: “Hašima”
  • Spanish: “Hashima”
  • Spanish: “Isla Hashima”
  • Swedish: “Hashima”
  • Swiss German: “Hashima”
  • Thai: “ฮาชิมะ”
  • Turkish: “Hashima Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Хасіма”
  • Ukrainian: “Хасіма”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Hashima”
  • Yue Chinese: “端島”

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