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Bonin Islands

[boh-nin]

plural noun

  1. a group of islands in the N Pacific, SE of and belonging to Japan: under U.S. administration 1945–68. 40 sq. mi. (104 sq. km).



Bonin Islands

/ ˈbəʊnɪn /

plural noun

  1. Japanese name: Ogasawara Guntoa group of 27 volcanic islands in the W Pacific: occupied by the US after World War II; returned to Japan in 1968. Largest island: Chichijima. Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles)

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In June 1830, 23 men and women made a perilous, 3,300-mile journey from Honolulu on a British schooner named the Washington to settle a lonely archipelago known in the West as the Bonin Islands, a mistranscription of a Japanese word meaning “uninhabited.”

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On Sept. 2, 1944, his plane was hit by Japanese ground fire during a bombing run on Chichi Jima in the Bonin Islands in the western Pacific.

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This has been combined with a poison in tests in the Bonin Islands 450 miles south of Japan.

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The above octopus seen in the Bonin Islands near Japan in 2008.

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They don’t teach the history of the Bonin Islands to kids, don’t teach about Nathaniel Savory.

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