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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Yakushima' has mentioned 'Island' in the following places:
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The island, 504.88xc2xa0km2 (194.94xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi) 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 from Fukuoka and once daily from Osaka).
Administratively, the whole island is the town of Yakushima.
The majority of the island is within the borders of the Kirishima-Yaku National Park.
The island has been a test site for Honda's hydrogen fuel cell vehicle research.
(There are no hydrogen cars stationed on the island but electric cars are run by the municipality.)
[6] The island is visited by 300,000 tourists every year.
The Vincennes Strait (Yakushima Kaikyxc5x8d) separates it from the nearby island of Tanegashima, which is home to the Japanese Space Centre.
The bedrock of the island is granite, and as such it hosts no active volcanoes.
The island is roughly circular in shape, with a circumference of 89 kilometres (55xc2xa0mi) and a diameter of 28 kilometres (17xc2xa0mi).
The highest elevations on the island are Miyanouradake (xe5xaexaexe4xb9x8bxe6xb5xa6xe5xb2xb3), with a height of 1,935 metres (6,348xc2xa0ft), and Nagatadake (xe6xb0xb8xe7x94xb0xe5xb2xb3), with a height of 1,886 metres (6,188xc2xa0ft) above sea level; however, Yakushima has another 30 peaks of over 1,000 metres (3,300xc2xa0ft) in height.
There are numerous hot springs on the island.
Following the Meiji restoration, the island has been administered as part of Kagoshima Prefecture.
[8] The only large animals indigenous to the island are red-bottomed macaques (Yakushima macaque) and a variety of sika deer (yakushika).
The Japanese raccoon dog is also a common animal, but is not native to the island.
The island is a spawning ground for migratory loggerhead turtles, and dolphins are to be found offshore.
The island, along with neighbouring Tanegashima, has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because they support populations of Japanese wood pigeons, whistling green pigeons and Ryukyu robins.
Most of the island has at one time or another been logged (dating back at least to the early Edo period), but has been extensively replanted and reseeded since logging ended in the late 1960s, at which time a conservation regime was established.
In addition, the island lists over 50 varieties of endemic flower, notably rhododendrons, and hundreds of rare endemic Bryophyta, as well as a number of endemic trees.
According to a disputed theory, airborne pollutants from the People's Republic of China may have affected Yakushima white pine in the forest on the island.
[12] The scientific results have been published: "Environmental factors influencing the load of long-range transported air pollutants on Pinus amamiana in Yakushima Island, Japan" IN: January 2009 Ecological Research 25(1):233-243.
Yakushima Airport is the main airport that serves the island.
The gas prices on the island is several tens of yen higher than the Japanese mainland.
The last operating narrow gauge (762mm gauge) timber railway in Japan is on the island but it is freight only.
Parts of the novel take place in the narratorxe2x80x99s childhood on the island.
The island also featured prominently in the 1996 film Rebirth of Mothra.
In the movie The Young Mothra swims to the island to transform into the new and more powerful Mothra taking its life essence and new powers from the eternal forest.
Wednesday Campanella's 2019 EP Yakushima Treasure is based on KOM_I's various trips to the island, and the YouTube Original documentary Re:SET covered the creative process[15]
Yakushima is a primeval temperate rainforest extending from the centre of the almost round-shaped, mountainous Yakushima Island.
Situated 60 km off the southernmost tip of Kyushu Island in the southwestern end of Japanese archipelago, the island is located at the interface of the palearctic and oriental biotic regions.
Mountains reaching almost 2,000 m high dominate the island, and the property lies in the centre of the island, with arms stretching south, east and west to the coast.
The island ecosystem of Yakushima is unique in the Northern Hemispherexe2x80x99s temperate area with successive vertical plant distributions extending from coastal vegetation with subtropical elements, up through a montane temperate rainforest to a high moor and a cold-temperate bamboo grassland at the central peaks.
Criterion (vii):xc2xa0Yakushima, despite being a small island, boasts several key features including impressive mountains which rise to nearly 2,000 m, and an outstanding gradient from the high peaks of the central core down to the seacoast.
The property is home to a number of extremely large diameter Japanese cedar trees, thousands of years old with the oldest and most spectacular individuals of the species found on Yakushima Island.
Thus, Yakushima is a valuable property having natural areas of biological, scientific and aesthetic significance on a small island.
Criterion (ix):xc2xa0Yakushima is an island ecosystem with high mountainsxe2x80x93xe2x80x93a characteristic rare in the region at around 30 degrees north latitude.
Yakushima comprises one single intact block of land containing a full representation of the different life-zones as well as the pristine and important forests in the centre of the island.
The property spans an area from the western coastline to the 2,000 m summit of the island, retaining continuity of vertical vegetation distribution from coastal vegetation with subtropical elements to cold-temperate bamboo grassland and a high moor near the summit.
The area of the property is 10,747 ha which occupies about 21% of the island, and it is of adequate size to maintain the value of the property for the long term.