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Hashima Island (端島, or simply Hashima, as -shima is a Japanese suffix for 'island'), commonly called Gunkanjima (軍艦島, meaning 'Battleship Island'), is a tiny abandoned island off Nagasaki, lying about 15 kilometres (8 nautical miles) from the centre of the city.
Because of its shape, it is also known as Gunkanjima (軍艦島, "Battleship Island"), which is also the common name given to Hashima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture. According to folklore , the island was given the name "Mitsukejima" by the Buddhist monk, scholar and artist Kūkai , who was the first to discover the island while travelling from ...
The Hashima setting was included after Craig met with Swedish film-maker Thomas Nordanstad while shooting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in Stockholm. Nordanstad, who produced a short 2002 documentary on the island entitled Hashima , recalled Craig taking extensive notes during the meeting, but was unaware of his interest in it until Skyfall ...
The Battleship Island (Korean: 군함도; Hanja: 軍艦島; RR: Gunhamdo) is a 2017 South Korean period action drama film starring Hwang Jung-min, So Ji-sub, Song Joong-ki and Lee Jung-hyun. It is a Japanese occupation-era film about an attempted prison break from a forced labor camp on Hashima Island. [3] [4]
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The Hashima meteorite of circa 1910, which landed in Hashima City (see meteorite falls) Hashima District, Gifu (羽島郡), a nearby district in Gifu Prefecture, Japan; Hashima Island (端島) (nicknamed Gunkanjima, which translates to "Battleship Island"), an uninhabited island in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, formerly home to a coal mining facility
Hashira Island (柱島, Hashira-jima) is an island in southern Hiroshima Bay in the Inland Sea, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Located 26 kilometres (16 mi) southeast of Iwakuni, it is part of the Kutsuna Islands within the Bōyo Islands group. The island covers 3.12 square kilometres (1.20 sq mi) and as of 2013 had a population of 184 residents ...
Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (明治日本の産業革命遺産 製鉄・鉄鋼、造船、石炭産業, Meiji nihon no sangyōkakumei isan: seitetsu, tekkō, zōsen, sekitan sangyō) are a group of historic sites that played an important part in the industrialization of Japan in the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods (1850s–1910), and ...