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Archipelago

    Russia

    44°06′N 146°42′E

    South Kuril Islands

    Part of Kuril Islands

    View in Rausu Kunashiri Observatory Deck. It is Kunashir Island.
    View in Rausu Kunashiri Observatory Deck. It is Kunashir Island.

    Tzu-hsun, Hsu / CC BY-SA 4.0

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    554 landforms

    Major islands

    3
    • Iturup

      Iturup

      Area
      3,163 km²
      High point
      1,634 m

      Iturup (Russian: Итуру́п), known in Japan as Etorofu (Japanese: 択捉島, Hepburn: Etorofu-tō), is the largest of the Kuril Islands separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. It is the largest and northernmost of the southern Kurils, in far-east Russia. The island is claimed by Japan.

    • Kunashir

      Kunashir

      Area
      1,485 km²
      High point
      1,819 m

      Kunashir (Russian: Кунаши́р, romanized: Kunashír), known in Japan as Kunashiri (Japanese: 国後島, Hepburn: Kunashiri-tō), is the southernmost island of the Kuril Islands. The island has been under Russian administration since the end of World War II, when Soviet forces took possession of the Kurils.

    • Shikotan

      Shikotan

      Area
      246 km²
      High point
      405 m

      Shikotan, also known as Shpanberg or Spanberg, is an island in the Kurils administered by the Russian Federation as part of Yuzhno-Kurilsky District of Sakhalin Oblast. It is claimed by Japan as the titular Shikotan District, organized as part of Nemuro Subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture.

    Minor islands

    9

    Rocks & skerries

    423

    On the chart above, at its closest zooms.

    Listing 12 of 554; the rest are on the chart.

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    Comparative heights

    Sea level500 m1,000 m1,500 m2,000 m1,819 mKunashir1,634 mIturup405 mShikotan62 mGrieg55 mAyvazovskogo43 mYuri40 mAnuchina38 mострова Дёмина36 mPon-harukaru-shima27 mZelyony23 mTanfiliev18 mPolonsky
    High points by island, metres above sea level.

    Islands by area

    0.11101001,00010,000Iturup: 3,163 km²IturupKunashir: 1,485 km²KunashirShikotan: 246 km²ShikotanZelyony: 58.1 km²ZelyonyTanfiliev: 12.1 km²TanfilievPolonsky: 10.8 km²PolonskyYuri: 9.7 km²YuriAnuchina: 2 km²AnuchinaGrieg: 1.3 km²GriegAyvazovskogo: 0.77 km²Ayvazovskogoострова Дёмина: 0.47 km²острова ДёминаPon-harukaru-shima: 0.12 km²Pon-harukaru-shima
    km², log scale
    Iturup3,163 km²
    Kunashir1,485 km²
    Shikotan246 km²
    Zelyony Island58.1 km²
    Tanfiliev Island12.1 km²
    Polonsky Island10.8 km²
    Yuri Island9.7 km²
    Anuchina2 km²
    Grieg Island1.3 km²
    Ayvazovskogo0.77 km²
    острова Дёмина0.47 km²
    Pon-harukaru-shima0.12 km²

    Groups within

    1

    Overlapping groups

    Sources

    Facts

    • Geometry, areas and high points: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Copernicus GLO-30, via Talus.
    • Wikidata

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