Marcus Island
Minamitorishima sometimes Minami-Tori-shima or Minami-Torishima, also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, located some 1,848 km southeast of Tokyo and 1,267 km east of the closest Japanese island…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: isolated Pacific island under Japanese jurisdiction
- Also known as: “Minami-Tori-shima”, “Minamitorishima”, “Minamitorishima Island”, and “Southern Bird Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marcus Island Airport.
Marcus Island Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Minami Torishima Airbase is a one runway airport serving the island of Minami Torishima, Japan. The aerodrome used to be a military airstrip and according to the Japanese Aeronautical Information Service, is still operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Marcus Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Ogasawara Subprefecture, Tokyo, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
24.2892° or 24° 17′ 21″ northLongitude
153.97883° or 153° 58′ 44″ eastElevation
8 metres (26 feet)IATA airport code
MUSUnited Nations Location Code
JP MUSOpen location code
7RPM7XQH+MGOpenStreetMap ID
way 130970566OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
2111921Wikidata ID
Q1047492
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Marcus Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة ماركوس”
- Arabic: “مينامي-توري-شيما”
- Armenian: “Մինամիտորի”
- Asturian: “Minami Torishima”
- Azerbaijani: “Minamitori”
- Basque: “Minamitorishima”
- Belarusian: “Атол Мінаміторы”
- Belarusian: “Мінаміторы”
- Catalan: “Minami Torishima”
- Cebuano: “Marcus Island”
- Chinese: “南鳥島”
- Chinese: “南鸟岛”
- Czech: “Marcus”
- Czech: “Minami Torishima”
- Czech: “Minami Torišima”
- Czech: “Ostrov Marcus”
- Dutch: “Minami Torishima”
- Dutch: “Minamitorishima”
- Esperanto: “Minami-Tori-ŝima”
- Esperanto: “Minamitoriŝimo”
- Esperanto: “Sudbirdinsulo”
- Estonian: “Marcuse saar”
- Estonian: “Minami Torishima”
- Estonian: “Minami-Tori-shima”
- Estonian: “Minamitori”
- Finnish: “Minami Torishima”
- Finnish: “Minami-Torishima”
- Finnish: “Minamitori-shima”
- Finnish: “Minamitorishima”
- French: “Île Marcus”
- French: “île Minamitori”
- French: “Île Minamitori”
- French: “Marcus Island”
- French: “Minamitori-shima”
- Galician: “Minami Torishima”
- German: “Marcus Island”
- German: “Marcus-Insel”
- German: “Marcusinsel”
- German: “Minami tori shima”
- German: “Minami Torishima”
- German: “Minami-Torishima”
- Greek: “Μινάμι-Τόρι-σίμα”
- Italian: “Isola Marcus”
- Italian: “Minami Tori Shima”
- Italian: “Minami Torishima”
- Japanese: “マーカス島”
- Japanese: “マルカス島”
- Japanese: “みなみとりしま”
- Japanese: “南鳥島”
- Korean: “마커스 섬”
- Korean: “미나미토리 섬”
- Korean: “미나미토리섬”
- Korean: “미나미토리시마 섬”
- Latvian: “Minamitori”
- Persian: “مینامی-توری-شیما”
- Polish: “Marcus”
- Polish: “Minami Tori-shima”
- Polish: “Minami Torishima”
- Polish: “Minami-tori-shima”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Marcus”
- Portuguese: “Minami Torishima”
- Portuguese: “Minamitorishima”
- Russian: “Маркус”
- Russian: “Минами-Торисима”
- Russian: “Минамитори-сима”
- Russian: “Минамитори”
- Russian: “Остров Маркуса”
- Spanish: “Isla Marcus”
- Spanish: “Minami Torishima”
- Spanish: “Minamitorishima”
- Swedish: “Marcusön”
- Swedish: “Minami-Torishima”
- Swedish: “Minamitori shima”
- Turkish: “Minami Torishima”
- Ukrainian: “Мінамі-торі”
- Ukrainian: “Мінамі-Торісіма”
- Ukrainian: “Мінамі-Торішіма”
- Ukrainian: “Мінаміторі”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Мінамі-Торішіма”
- Urdu: “مینامی توری شیما”
- Uzbek: “Minamitori”
- Vietnamese: “Minami Tori-shima”
- Vietnamese: “Minamitorishima”
- Western Panjabi: “مینامی توری شیما”
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