Onekotan
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Onekotan is an uninhabited volcanic island located near the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language for
Onekotan Island (centre) from space, October 1994. North at top
Snow cover highlights the calderas and volcanic cones that form the northern and southern ends of Onekotan.
View of Krenitsyn Peak from the rim of Tao-Rusyr Caldera on Onekotan Island
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
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