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Lot's Wife (crag) Lot's Wife (孀婦岩, Sōfu-iwa or Sōfugan, "Widow Rock") is a volcanic desert island located in the Philippine Sea approximately 650 kilometres (400 mi) south off the coast of Tokyo, at the southernmost tip of the Izu archipelago, Japan. Though only 0.01 km 2 in area, it reaches almost 100 meters in height.
Ishikawa Prefecture. Location. The Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto-hantō) is a peninsula that projects north into the Sea of Japan from the coast of Ishikawa Prefecture in central Honshū, the main island of Japan. Before the Meiji era, the peninsula belonged to Noto Province. The main industries of the peninsula are agriculture, fisheries ...
Moshio salt (藻塩) is a type of Japanese sea salt made using an ancient method where it is collected using a dried seaweed known as hondawara (Sargassum fulvellum). The seaweed is believed to confer additional umami flavor to the salt. [1] [2] Japan's climate is too cool and wet to allow easy production of salt by simple evaporation of ...
The Yonaguni Monument (Japanese: 与那国島海底地形, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei, lit."Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography"), also known as "Yonaguni (Island) Submarine Ruins" (与那国（島）海底遺跡, Yonaguni(-jima) Kaitei Iseki), is a submerged rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan.
Smith Island (Japan) Sumisu Island (須美寿島, Sumisu-tō) is a volcanic, deserted island located in the Philippine Sea approximately 110 kilometres (68 mi) off the coast of Aogashima, near the southern end of the Izu archipelago, Japan. Sumisu-tō is administratively part of Tokyo Metropolis.
Quick clay, also known as Leda clay and Champlain Sea clay in Canada, is any of several distinctively sensitive glaciomarine clays found in Canada, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Finland, the United States, and other locations around the world. [1][2][3] The clay is so unstable that when a mass of quick clay is subjected to sufficient stress, the ...
Persian Blue and Atlantic Grey salts also showed elevated levels of iron and zinc. Pink Himalayan salt has also become a consumer favorite because of its purported health benefits – it gets its ...
Yakushima (屋久島) is one of the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.The island, 504.88 km 2 (194.94 sq mi) in area, has a population of 13,178. Access to the island is by hydrofoil ferry (7 or 8 times a day from Kagoshima, depending on the season), slow car ferry (once or twice a day from Kagoshima), or by air to Yakushima Airport (3 to 5 times daily from Kagoshima, once daily ...