Talk:Yonaguni

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1. 1. Help! The caped crusadertranslator hurts himself. Need help with the translation.--Jondel 07:02, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 POV 2 Katakana names 3 Wikitravel Destination of the Month 4 Discovery?

[edit] POV

"However, the viability of these theories is undetermined when one considers that there are no piles of rocks at the foot of the structures, as would be expected if the near-perfect right angles that define these structures were formed by cleavage of the rocks that make them up."

According to the dive-site diagram here : http://www.city.ishigaki.okinawa.jp/en/engnews/ishigakitimes/tourism.htm#Yonaguni-Island There seems to be a good collection of rock at the bottom of the outcrop, where one would expect to find it considering its position in the tidal zone, and the drop-off. Thenerdgod 21:42, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Katakana names

On the map a few names are written in katakana. What is the reason for this unusual style of writing?

The names are in Okinawan, not Japanese. Jpatokal 08:18, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Somebody needs to clean up the page as rather than being neutral, and also without going into details it suggests that the structures are manmade and "predate those of Mesopotamia, India, Egypt and China". This is a provocative statement as many scientists of different races and disciplines who have visited Yonaguni have said they should be natural formations. They definitely look natural on tv. Graham Hancock who has a penchant for saying things that are unconventional about history and prehistory is among the few believers. But even he said that "any one structure would look natural but the entire formation on the whole suggests that it is manmade".

This is however not the only one of its kind, such statements can be made on the discussion page, but not on the main article one. There are many pages unfortunately on this very good site that have such nationalisms and regionisms being expressed very blatantly.

Go ahead and fix it! Jpatokal 08:18, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

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The katakana names might be because of the word being from one of the Ryukyuan languages and not Japanese. Since there would be no kanji for these words, katakana is used.--88.105.255.133 01:46, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikitravel Destination of the Month

Yonaguni is Destination of the Month on Wikitravel for March 2006. Pitch in and help improve it! Jpatokal 08:18, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discovery?

Now I'm confused - when was the site really discovered for the first time? In 1985 or in 1995? I've just written 1985 in the swedish edition, that's why I wonder...--81.224.186.135 13:10, 9 August 2006 (UTC)