Yonaguni Monument
The Yonaguni Monument, also known as the Yonaguni Submarine Ruins, is a submerged rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan.Photo: Vincent Lou, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: submerged rock formation
- Also known as: “Yonaguni Island Submarine Ruins”, “Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography”, and “Yonaguni Submarine Ruins”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Yonaguni and Jinmen-iwa.
Yonaguni
Photo: Vincent Lou, CC BY 2.0.
Yonaguni, one of the Yaeyama Islands, is the westernmost island of Japan, lying between the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea. A mere 107.4 kilometers separate the island from Taiwan at their closest points.
Jinmen-iwa
Archaeological site
与那国郵便局
Post office
Photo: Yasu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
与那国郵便局 is a post office, which is situated 4 km north of Yonaguni Monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kubura.
Kubura
Neighborhood
Photo: Yasu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kubura is a neighborhood, which is situated 7 km west of Yonaguni Monument.
Yonaguni Monument
- Categories: undersea landform, rock formation, and tourism
- Location: Yonaguni Town, Yaeyama District, Okinawa, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
24.43605° or 24° 26′ 10″ northLongitude
123.01147° or 123° 0′ 41″ eastOpen location code
7QP5C2P6+CHOpenStreetMap ID
node 3540325397OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q995511
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Uzbek—“Yonaguni Monument” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Yonaguni-monument”
- Armenian: “Յոնագունիի հուշարձան”
- Asturian: “Estructures de Yonaguni”
- Basque: “Yonaguniko Egiturak”
- Basque: “Yonaguniko Monumentua”
- Bulgarian: “Подводен монумент Йонагуни”
- Catalan: “Estructures de Yonaguni”
- Chinese: “與那國島海底地形”
- Czech: “Asijská Atlantida”
- Czech: “Japonská Atlantida”
- Czech: “Jonagunský monument”
- Czech: “Jonagunský podmořský výtvor”
- Danish: “Yonaguni-formationen”
- Dutch: “Yonaguni-monument”
- Dutch: “Yonagunim-monument”
- Esperanto: “monumento de Jonaguni”
- Esperanto: “submara strukturo de Jonaguni”
- French: “structure sous-marine de Yonaguni”
- French: “Structure sous-marine de Yonaguni”
- German: “Yonaguni-Monument”
- Indonesian: “Monumen Yonaguni”
- Italian: “Struttura Yonaguni”
- Japanese: “与那国島海底地形”
- Korean: “요나구니 구조물”
- Malay: “Tugu Yonaguni”
- Polish: “Monumenty Yonaguni”
- Portuguese: “Estruturas de Yonaguni”
- Russian: “Террасные образования у островов Рюкю”
- Sinhala: “Yonaguni Monument”
- Spanish: “Estructuras de Yonaguni”
- Tamil: “யோனாகுனி நினைவுச்சின்னம்”
- Turkish: “Yonaguni buluntuları”
- Ukrainian: “Монумент Йонагуні”
- Uzbek: “Yonaguni yodgorligi”
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Highlights include 新川鼻東小島 and 人面岩.
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