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Chichijima
, formerly known as Peel Island and in the 19th century known to the English as part of the Bonin Islands, is the largest island in the Ogasawara archipelago. Chichi-jima is approximately north of Iwo Jima. The island is within the political boundaries of Ogasawara Town, Ogasawara Subprefecture, Tokyo, Japan. 2,000 people live on its land area of 24 km2.
==Topography and climate==
Chichijima is located at . There are currently around 2,000 people living on the island, and the island's area is about 24 km2.
On English maps from the early 19th century, the island chain was known as the Bonin Islands. The name Bonin comes from a French cartographer's corruption of the old Japanese word 'munin', which means 'no man', and the English translated it to "No mans land" islands.〔 Note: (Google review )〕
The climate of Chichijima is on the boundary between a tropical savanna climate (Köppen ''Aw'') and a humid subtropical climate (''Cfa''). Temperatures are warm to hot and humid all year round, and have never fallen below or risen above 〔(観測史上1～10位の値（年間を通じての値） )〕 owing to the warm currents from the North Pacific gyre that surround the island. Rainfall is however less heavy than in most parts of mainland Japan since the island is too far south to be influenced by the Aleutian Low and too far from Asia to receive monsoonal rainfall or orographic precipitation on the equatorward side of the Siberian High. Occasionally very heavy cyclonic rain will fall, as on 7 November 1997 when the island received its record daily rainfall of and monthly rainfall of .
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