Kunashir
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Kunashir, known in Japan as Kunashiri, 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 possessi
View of Kunashir from the Rausu Kunashiri Observatory Deck
Cape Stolbchaty on the western side of the island
Sulfuric River, Kunashir
Kunashir coastline: photo taken by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in November 2010
Kuril Islands
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The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East. The islands stretch approximately 1,300 km northeast from Hokkaido in Ja
Kunashir
…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. It is claimed by…
A coastline along one of the Kuril Islands
Caldera of the island Ushishir
Stratovolcano Mt. Ruruy as viewed from Yuzhno-Kurilsk
Kuril Ainu people next to their traditional dwelling