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Minamitorishima (南鳥島, lit. "Southern Bird Island") sometimes Minami-Tori-shima or Minami-Torishima, also known as Marcus Island, is an isolated Japanese coral atoll...

USS Marcus Island (CVE-77) was the twenty-third of fifty Casablanca-class escort carriers built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was...

Marcus, Markus, Márkus or Mărcuș may refer to: Marcus (name), a masculine given name Marcus (praenomen), a Roman personal name Marcus, a main belt asteroid...

Subtropical islands in the Australia/New Zealand region Lord Howe Island Norfolk Island Micronesia The Bonin Islands and Volcano Islands Marcus Island The Northern...

Torishima (Marcus Island) Enoshima Okino Torishima (Parece Vela) Most of these are located in the East China Sea. Amakusa Shimoshima Island, Amakusa Kamishima...

He served as Roman consul in 140, 145, and 161. Marcus Aurelius was the son of the praetor Marcus Annius Verus and his wife, Domitia Calvilla. He was...

Marcus Island LORAN-C transmitter, or Minami Torishima LORAN-C transmitter, is a former LORAN-C transmitter on Minami-Tori-shima (Marcus Island) in Ogasawara...

for sexual intercourse. Marcus Island is administratively under the government of Tokyo. The age of consent in Marshall Islands is 16. Section 152(A) of...

driest months are January and February. The easternmost island, Minamitorishima or Marcus Island, has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen classification...

other, are: Clipperton Island, Easter Island, Johnston Atoll, Marcus Island, Norfolk Island, Parece Vela, and Salas and Gómez Island." In his 2013 book Reptiles...

Wake, including Minami Tori Shima ("Southern Bird Island"  aka Marcus Island). It was a remote island to the northwest of Wake, with a small Japanese military...

fully habitable structures. B. ^ Marcus Island is not within the special wards of Tokyo. Administratively, the island is part of Ogasawara, Tokyo. C. ^...

doi:10.2307/2561081, JSTOR 2561081. Welsch, Bernhard (June 2004), "Was Marcus Island Discovered by Bernardo de la Torre in 1543?", Journal of Pacific History...

half-dozen destroyers. The task force's first mission was to shell Wake Island and Marcus Island, then, joined by Hornet (CV-8) and the rest of Task Force 18 (TF18)...

later in 1943 for actions in battles near Marcus Island in August and subsequent missions near Wake Island in October. O'Hare was not employed on combat...

participated in the shelling of Wake Island. In October 1944, she lent a hand in the bombardment of Marcus Island. By January 1945, the ship was involved...

This article covers the Japanese garrisons on the by-passed Pacific islands from 1944 to 1945, including the Japanese mandated territory of the South...

(206 km) from Marcus Island early on the morning of 31 August. She spent most of that day launching fighter and bomber strikes on Marcus Island before beginning...

the attack of Wake Island by the Enterprise Air Group, and on March 4 Marcus Island was attacked. After these raids Enterprise returned to Pearl Harbor...

purported islands in the Western North Pacific Ocean between Japan and Hawaii. The group was supposed to include Wake Island and Marcus Island, as well...