Gunkan-iwa
Gunkan-iwa is in Yonaguni Town, Yaeyama District, Okinawa. Gunkan-iwa is situated nearby to the locality Sanninudai, as well as near the neighborhood Sonai.Places of Interest
Highlights include Yonaguni and Yonaguni Monument.
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.
Yonaguni Monument
Photo: Vincent Lou, CC BY 2.0.
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.
Gunkan-iwa
- Type: Coastline
- Categories: tourism, tourist attraction, and landform
- Location: Yonaguni Town, Yaeyama District, Okinawa, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
24.454° or 24° 27′ 14″ northLongitude
123.0344° or 123° 2′ 4″ eastOpen location code
7QP5F23M+HQOpenStreetMap ID
way 130977688OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
“Gunkan-iwa” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “Gunkan Iwa”
- Japanese: “ぐんかんいわ”
- Japanese: “軍艦岩”
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