Yoron island is located in the north of Okinawa prefecture. The name was suggested by Y. Ueno, who lives on this island (latitude +27°) and succeeded in observing α Crucis (declination -63°) from there in Mar. 2008 using the atmospheric refraction.
Discovered on 9-2-1991 in Yakiimo by Natori, A., Urata, T.