Volcano Islands uninhabited. The first recorded sighting by Europeans was in October 1543 by Spanish navigator Bernardo de la Torre on board of carrack "San Juan de Letrán" when trying to return from Sarangani to New Spain. Iwo Jima was charted as Sufre, the old Spanish term for sulphur. The islands were uninhabited until 1889, when the two northern islands were settled by Japanese settlers from the Izu Islands. They were annexed by Japan in 1891. The population was about 1,100 in 1939, distributed among five settlements: Higashi, Minami, Nishi, Kita and Motoyama (meaning "East", "South", "West", "North" and "Mountain of Origin",
Unnamed volcano (Ibugos) Unnamed volcano (Ibugos) Unnamed volcano (Ibugos), is a submarine volcano near the island Ibugos in the Philippines. The volcano is off Ibugos Island, at the southernmost end 0f the Batanes Islands, in the province of Batanes, in the Cagayan Valley Region, in the Philippines, within the Luzon Strait between Luzon and Taiwan. The volcano is a submarine volcano rising to within of the sea surface, due west of Dequey Volcano. It is one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines. Submarine eruptions reported in 1773, 1850, and 1854 are likely to have originated from this volcano. There have been no