Ogasawara National Park

 
This southernmost national park consists of Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Iocated about 1,000 km south of Tokyo. The Park boasts of mag- nificent oceanic islands and coastal scenery. Iwojima Island is the summit area of a submarine volcano emerging above sea level. The other islands of the park are also volcanic in origin. In the Senjin-iwa area of Chichijima Island and Ooku-zure Bay of Hahajima Island, many large scale cliffs can be observed, eroded by wave. Mina- mijima Island of the Chichijima Island group has karstic type landforms.

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