Hashira Island
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Hashira Island
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Script error: No such module "Nihongo". is an island in southern Hiroshima Bay in the Inland Sea, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Located 26 kilometres (16 mi) southeast of Iwakuni, it is part of the Kutsuna Islands within the Bōyo Islands group. The island covers 3.12 square kilometres (1.20 mi2) and as of 2013 had a population of 184 residents.[1][2][3]
The highest point on the island is Mt. Kinzō. Economic activity on the island consists of fishing and cultivation of vegetables and citrus fruit.[2] Hashirajima is connected to the port at Iwakuni Mondays through Saturdays by a high speed ferry.
The island is best known for its association in World War II with the surrounding Hashirajima Anchoring Area, located 30 to 40 kilometres (16 to 22 nmi; 19 to 25 mi) south of the naval base at Kure, Hiroshima. Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy that did not need dock repairs would anchor at Hashirajima, and it was also used as a staging area before fleet departures. It was also the site of the loss of the Japanese battleship Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found., which suffered an internal explosion and sank there on 8 June 1943.[2]
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."柱島" [Hashira Island]. Nihon Rekishi Chimei Taikei (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2013. OCLC 173191044. Archived from the original on 2007-08-25. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."柱島" [Hashira Island]. Nihon Daihyakka Zensho (Nipponika) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2013. OCLC 153301537. Archived from the original on 2007-08-25. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.世帯数及び人口集計表（町丁別・日本人） (in Japanese). Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan: City of Iwakuni. 2013. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
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