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Composite map of the islands between Kamchatka Peninsula and Nemuro Peninsula, combining twelve U.S. Army Map Service maps compiled in the early 1950s. The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands [a] are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East. [1]
Disputed islands in question: Habomai Islands, Shikotan, Kunashiri (Kunashir) and Etorofu (Iturup) Southern Kuril islands seen from the International Space Station The Kuril Islands dispute , known as the Northern Territories dispute in Japan , is a territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril ...
Module:Location map/data/Russia Kuril Islands is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Kuril Islands. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The island was formally claimed as Japanese territory in 1855. Near the end of the Second World War in 1945, the Soviet Union occupied the southern Kurils and forcibly removed its Japanese residents. Japan continues to claim the islands and considers the northern edge of the island to be its own northernmost point.
Location of Kuril Islands in the Western Pacific. The evacuation of Karafuto (Sakhalin) and the Chishima (Kuril) islands refers to the events that took place during the Pacific theater of World War II as the Japanese population left these areas, to August 1945 in the northwest of the main islands of Japan.
Using geochemistry, radioactive dating and computer modeling to map particles’ trajectories, ... the closest matches were in Japan and the Kuril Islands. Volcanic eruptions in 19th century Japan ...
The island is a complex stratovolcano with two main peaks. Sarychev Peak (Russian: влк.Сарычева, Japanese: 芙蓉山; Fuyōzan, also known as Matsuwa-Fuji) in the northwest of the island is one of the most active volcanoes of the Kuril Islands. The central cone has a 250-meter (820 ft) wide, very steep-walled crater with a jagged rim ...
It is the fourth largest of the Kuril Islands, with an area of 1,430 square kilometres (552 square miles). The highest point is Gora Ivao at 1,426 metres (4,678 ft). A number of tiny islets and rocks are scattered around the coast of Urup. Topographic map of Urup island