Higashi Iwa
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island, volcano, reef
Higashi Iwa (East Rock) marks the eastern rim of an underwater volcanic crater roughly nine miles in diameter, out of which Sulfur Island (Iwo Jima) has only recently been uplifted.
In the late afternoon of 16 February 1945 (D -3) the USS Barr approached this reef from the east. Three officers and ten men of Underwater Demolitions Team (UDT) 13 continued to the rock itself in small boats. There they emplaced a navigation marker, a flashing white acetylene lamp. As they withdrew, a Japanese shore battery opened fire, but without effect.
In the late afternoon of 16 February 1945 (D -3) the USS Barr approached this reef from the east. Three officers and ten men of Underwater Demolitions Team (UDT) 13 continued to the rock itself in small boats. There they emplaced a navigation marker, a flashing white acetylene lamp. As they withdrew, a Japanese shore battery opened fire, but without effect.
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Coordinates: 24°46'47"N 141°22'44"E
- Iwo To / Iwo Jima 10 km
- Haha-jima island 228 km
- Chichi-jima island 271 km
- Hachijo Island 946 km
- Miyakejima Island 1056 km
- Kozushima Island 1076 km
- Niijima island 1094 km
- Izu Oshima island 1132 km
- Noto Island 1443 km
- Sado Island 1539 km
- Iwo Jima Airbase 5.7 km
- Wreck of USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) 83 km
- Wreck of HIJMS CD-24 106 km
- Ogasawara-mura 271 km
- Nishinoshima 279 km
- Wreck of HIJMS Matsukaze (松風) 307 km
- Wreck of HIJMS Matsu (松) 324 km
- Coco Rocks 337 km
- Izu-Ogasawara Trench 557 km
- Myōjin-shō 806 km
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