Marcus Island
Minamitorishima, sometimes known as Minami-Tori-shima or Minami-Torishima and also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- 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 Minami Torishima Airport.
Minami Torishima Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Marcus Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Ogasawara Subprefecture, Tokyo, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
24.2892° or 24° 17′ 21″ north
Longitude
153.97883° or 153° 58′ 44″ east
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
MUS
United Nations Location Code
JP MUS
Open location code
7RPM7XQH+MG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Thai: “มินามิโทริชิมะ”
- 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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