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Ō Island

island, Japan
Also known as: Vries Island

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physiography of Izu Islands

  • The smoking volcano of Mount Mihara on Ō Island, one of the Izu Islands, Japan
    In Izu Islands

    Ō Island, the largest of the Seven Islands group, is 35 square miles (91 square km) in area. It was known to Western cartographers as Vries Island, after the Dutch navigator Martin Heritzoon de Vries, who reached it in 1643. The islands were used by…

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