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The population, which was 1,546 in 1904 and 1,905 in 1940, is now only 450. A single road connects the abandoned village of
Kitamura (北村) at the north end of the island to the village of Okimura (沖村) - formerly "Newport", at the southern end of the island, where the harbor is located. The island can
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But most if not all of the endemic land snail species seem to persist on the remote
Higashizaki peninsula on the eastern coast. This is a quite pristine expanse of ground, scenic but very hard to reach (one has to climb Mt. Chibusa before descending to the peninsula). It consists of sheer seacliffs
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originally named the largest island in the group "Fisher Island", which became
Hahajima, and the second largest "Kidd Island", after the owners of his vessel. The islands came to be known as the "Coffin Islands". (Hahajima was also called
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approximately 50 km (31 mi) to the north and the nearby smaller islands such as
Anejima and Imōtojima and Mukōjima. The group forms the Hahajima Rettō (母島列島; formerly the "Baily Group").
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