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Okinotorishima
The "distant bird island" are an 8 km2 total area uninhabited atoll. Its dry land area however is mostly made up by 3 concrete encasings amounting to over 8000 m2; it furthermore has a 5000 m2 platform in its lagoon housing a research station.
It is located on the Palau-Kyushu Ridge in the Philippine Sea at , SE of Oki Daitō and WSW of Minami Iwo Jima of the Ogasawara Islands or south of Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese meaning of the name is "remote bird islands"; they are the southernmost islands of Japan, and the only Japanese territory in the tropics.
==Etymology==
The atoll has multiple designations in English (Okinotori coral reefs, Okinotori Islands). Its original name was Parece Vela, Spanish for "it looks like a sail" (alluding to the original appearance of the reef). This name has been retained in English as well, especially to designate the geological formations of the islets.
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