Which abandoned Japanese island appeared in the 2017 South Korean action film "The Battleship Island" ?
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The Battleship Island The Battleship Island () is a 2017 South Korean period action fiction film starring Hwang Jung-min, So Ji-sub, Song Joong-ki and Lee Jung-hyun. It is a Japanese occupation-era film about an attempted prison break from a forced labor camp on Hashima Island.
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Hashima Island Hashima Island (端島 , or simply Hashima — "-shima" is a Japanese suffix for "island" ) , commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島; meaning Battleship Island), is an abandoned island lying about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture. The island's most notable features are its abandoned concrete buildings, undisturbed except by nature, and the surrounding sea wall. While the island is a symbol of the rapid industrialization of Japan, it is also a reminder of its dark history as a site of forced labor prior to and during the Second World War.
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Japanese gunboat Ōshima Ōshima (大島 ) was a steam gunboat, serving in the early Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named after the island of Ōshima off Shizuoka prefecture.
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Kuroshima (Okinawa) Kuroshima (黒島; Yaeyama: "Fishiima" Okinawan: "Kurushima"), also known as "Kuro Island", is an island in Taketomi Town, Okinawa, part of the Yaeyama archipelago. The island has the approximate shape of a heart symbol when viewed from the air, and is marketed as "Heart Island". The name means "Black Island".
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Japanese 20mm Cannon Blockhouse The Japanese 20mm Cannon Blockhouse is one of many relics of World War II on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. It is a concrete blockhouse, semi-circular in shape with a diameter of about 6 m . Its walls are 1.22 m thick with four firing ports large enough to accommodate 20mm cannons, originally equipped with steel sliding shutters. A steel door 25 mm thick provides access to the structure at the rear, sheltered by a concrete wall and covered defensively by a machine gun port. The blockhouse is located near the center of what is locally called Big Agingan Beach (Unai Dankulo Agingan), on the south coast of the island, about 20 m from the shore. It was built in some haste by the Japanese forces defending Saipan in 1944, and was captured by Allied forces early in the Battle of Saipan.
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Japanese minelayer Itsukushima Itsukushima (厳島 ) was a medium-sized minelayer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which was in service during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. She was named after the First Sino-Japanese War-era cruiser "Itsukushima" , which in turn was named after Itsukushima, a sacred island in Hiroshima Prefecture of Japan. She was the first warship in the Imperial Japanese Navy with all diesel engine propulsion.
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Tsushima Strait Tsushima Strait (対馬海峡 , Tsushima Kaikyō ) ; (Korean: 쓰시마 해협 "sseu-si-ma hae-hyeop") is the eastern channel of the Korea Strait, which lies between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.
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Oki Islands Oki Islands (隠岐諸島 , Oki-shotō , or 隠岐の島 "Oki-no-shima", 隠岐群島 "Oki-guntō") is an archipelago in the Sea of Japan, the islands of which are administratively part of Oki District, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. The islands have a total area of 346.1 sqkm . Only four of the sixteen named islands are permanently inhabited. Much of the archipelago is within the borders of Daisen-Oki National Park. Due to their geological heritage, the Oki Islands were designated a UNESCO Global Geopark in September 2014.
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Tōshijima Tōshijima (答志島 ) is an inhabited island located in Ise Bay off the east coast of central Honshu, Japan. It is administered as part of the city of Toba in Mie Prefecture. It is the largest of the outlying islands of Toba.
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Flower Island Flower Island () is a 2001 South Korean film directed by Song Il-gon. This was Song's first feature-length film after directing several award-winning short films.
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Yuri (island) Yuri (Iurii) (Russian: Юрий , Japanese: 勇留島 , "Yuri-to " , Ainu: ウリル, "Uriru"‎ ) is an uninhabited island in the Habomai Islands sub-group of the Kuril Islands chain in the south of the Sea of Okhotsk, northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language word for cormorant.
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Ganghwa Island Ganghwa Island, also known by its native name Ganghwado, is a South Korean island in the estuary of the Han River. It lies in the Yellow Sea off Korea's west coast, separated from Gimpo on the South Korean mainland by a narrow channel spanned by two bridges and from Kaesong (Gaeseong) in North Korea by the main channel of the Han River.
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Socotra Rock Socotra Rock, also known as Ieodo (Hangul: 이어도 ; Hanja: 離於島 ; MR: "Iŏdo " ) or sometimes Parangdo (Hangul: 파랑도 ; Hanja: 波浪島 ; MR: "P'arangdo " ), is a submerged rock 4.6 m below sea level (at low tide) located in the Yellow Sea. International maritime law stipulates that a submerged rock outside of a nation's territorial sea (generally 12 nautical miles) can not be claimed as territory by any nation. However, the rock is the subject of a maritime dispute between South Korea, China and even Japan, which considers it to lie within its exclusive economic zone. And China refers to it as Suyan Rock (), which means the rock(岩, yán) or reef(礁, jiāo) outside the coastal waters of Jiangsu (苏, sū, the abbreviation), while Japan refers it as the same name in Chinese character. In fact, both China and Japan use Suyan/Sogan Islet for its English name.
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Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan (see below for other names) is a marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula and Russia. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Japan, Korea (North and South) and Russia. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it has almost no tides due to its nearly complete enclosure from the Pacific Ocean. This isolation also reflects in the fauna species and in the water salinity, which is lower than in the ocean. The sea has no large islands, bays or capes. Its water balance is mostly determined by the inflow and outflow through the straits connecting it to the neighboring seas and Pacific Ocean. Few rivers discharge into the sea and their total contribution to the water exchange is within 1%.
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Gunkanjima Gunkanjima (軍艦島 ) , meaning "battleship island" in Japanese, is the nickname of several islands:
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HMAS Commonwealth HMAS "Commonwealth" is a former Royal Australian Navy shore base located in Kure, Hiroshima in Japan. The base had been run by the British as HMS "Commonwealth", and was renamed HMAS "Commonwealth" on 1 October 1948. It ceased operation in June 1950, at which time the base was transferred to Japanese control. HMAS "Commonwealth" (Establishment) was transferred to Korea on 28 April 1952, where it continued until 19 April 1956.
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Sinmi Island Sinmi Island is a North Korean island in the Pansong Archipelago in West Korea Bay. With an area of 52 km² , it is the largest island in North Korea.
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Rokkō Island Rokkō Island (六甲アイランド , Rokkō Airando ) is the second major artificial island in Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Japan located in the southeast region at Port of Kobe. The island was constructed from reclaimed land between 1973 and 1992. It has a 3.4 km by 2 km rectangular shape, and covers 5.80 km². The island was one of the hardest hit areas in Kobe during the Great Hanshin earthquake. Rokkō Island contains hotels, sports and conventions facilities, markets, a water amusement park, sea view apartment buildings, the Kobe Fashion Museum, two international schools, container yards, wharves, and port facilities. The Rokko Liner connects the island to JR Sumiyoshi Station, stopping at several points along the way.
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Wihwa Island Wihwa Island (Korean: 위화도 , "Wihwado", ) is a river island in the Yalu river, lying on the border between North Korea and China. It is now under the effective jurisdiction of North Korea, due to ethnic Koreans living on the island at the time of the 1962 border treaty.
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Pidansom Pidansom (Korean: 비단섬 ) is a river island in the Yalu river in North Korea. Pidansom was made of several river islands such as Sindo Island (薪島) and Maando (馬鞍島).
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Hikoshima Hikoshima (彦島 ) (also called Hikishima (引島 ) in Nihon Shoki) is an island on the south-west tip of Honshu, Japan.
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Inamba-jima Inamba-jima (Inanba-jima ) is a volcanic, deserted island located in the Philippine Sea approximately 220 km south of Tokyo and 35 km southwest of Mikura-jima, in the center of the Izu archipelago, Japan.