Astronaut Kimiya Yui captured from ISS Okinotori Island, Japan.
Okinotori Island is a coral reef, geologically an atoll, with two rocks enlarged with tetrapod-cement structures. It is administered by Japan with a total shoal area of 8,482 m2 and land area 9.44m2. Its dry land area is mostly made up by three concrete encasings and there is a 100 by 50m stilt platform in the lagoon housing a research station. There is a third completely artificial tetrapod-cement islet. Okinotori is located on the Palau-Kyushu Ridge in the Philippine Sea, 534km southeast of Okidaitōjima and 567km west-southwest of South Iwo Jima in the Bonin Islands or 1,740km south of Tokyo, Japan. Okinotori is the southernmost part of Japan and the only Japanese territory south of the Tropic of Cancer.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Kimiya Yui’s Tweet
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