Minamitorishima

Minami-Tori-shima (南鳥島?) or Marcus Island is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, located some 1,848 kilometres (1,148 mi) SE of former Tokyo City and 1,267 kilometres (787 mi) east of the closest Japanese island, South Iwo Jima of the Ogasawara Islands, and nearly on a straight line between mainland Tokyo and US' Wake Island, which is 1,415 kilometres (879 mi) east southeast. The closest island, however, is the East Island of the Maug Islands of the Mariana Islands, which is 1,015 kilometres (631 mi) west south-west of Minami-Tori-shima. The meaning of the Japanese name is "Southern Bird Island". It is the easternmost territory belonging to Japan, and the only Japanese territory on the Pacific Plate, past the Japan Trench. Although very small, it is of extreme strategic importance, as it enables Japan to claim a 428,875 square kilometres (165,589.6 sq mi) Exclusive Economic Zone in the surrounding waters. It is also the easternmost territory of Tokyo, being administratively part of Ogasawara village.