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The Swan Islands, or Islas Santanilla or Islas del Cisne, is a chain of three islands located in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, approximately off the coastline of Honduras, with a land area of . The islands are inhabited by a small permanent Honduran navy garrison, located at Great Swan Island. ==Geography== The Swan Islands lie within the EEZ of Honduras and belong to the Islas de la Bahía department of Honduras.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Islas del Cisne )〕 They consist of three islands: * Great Swan Island (3 km long, 2 km²) * Little Swan (2.4 km long, 0.5 km wide, 1.2 km²) * Booby Cay (90 metres long, 70 m off the southwest corner of Great Swan, <0.01 km²) Rosario Bank and Misteriosa Bank are 130 to 150 km north of the Swan Islands and separated from them by the >5000 metres deep Cayman Trench. The islands are uninhabited, except for a small Honduran navy garrison.〔 Great Swan has a 3800′ (1158 m) grass airstrip (ICAO code MHIC, IATA code -). Due to a common mistake, the islands' size were measured by the Honduras Statistical Bureau in km2, but the typewriter accidentally typed sq miles, so the true 3.1 sq kilometers size became recorded as 8 sq kilometers. Google Earth photos support this mistake. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swan Islands, Honduras」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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