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(33,044 posts)The village of Aogashima administers the island under Hachijō Subprefecture of Tokyo Metropolis. As of 2009, the island's population was 205. Aogashima is also within the boundaries of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Ptah
(33,044 posts)"http:// tc.v19.cache3.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/28485008.jpg"
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progressoid
(50,000 posts)These kind of isolated places are fascinating.
I'll never get to go there but it sure is fun to wonder...
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)I googled "Caldera island with a mine" but it got me no where. I'll keep trying.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,737 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,737 posts)Looks like a few people live on it too......I see houses scattered on the other side, near the top on the right.
If you find out where it is, please post it, OK? I'd love to see the whole place.
progressoid
(50,000 posts)Kidding. Maybe I'll win the lottery and then I'll go.
Oh, wait. I don't play the lottery.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,737 posts)The article also contains the same picture.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)DFW
(54,448 posts)The ocean looks pretty, though, in case you fall off a cliff.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...leading off the edge. Why? Although, if I was forced to live on a remote island I'd probably find myself driving down, and off, that road.
Yes, it is gorgeous, but I'm a city girl and would go batshit in 72 hours.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)Plug that into Google maps, choose satellite and off you go!
progressoid
(50,000 posts)Du Rocks!
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)When my dad was in the Air Force in the 1950s he landed in the Azores and he said he flew over a new island coming out of the waters of the Atlantic.
progressoid
(50,000 posts)I guy can dream right?
Bucky
(54,087 posts)You ain't seen it till you've seen the other side.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Cool that the small island must get enough rainfall to feed a stream and waterfall.
progressoid
(50,000 posts)Just wow
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)You couldn't get there by plane - well, maybe parachute - but how would you get off?
If you land by boat, it looks like you have to some mountaineering skills.
Just gorgeous.
Gorp
(716 posts)Aristus
(66,478 posts)That's what I was going to say...