The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (/ˈk(j)ʊərɪl, kjʊˈriːl/; Russian: Кури́льские острова́, romanized: Kuril'skiye ostrova, IPA: [kʊˈrʲilʲskʲɪjə ɐstrɐˈva];...
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ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands. The Kuril Islands are a chain of islands that stretch between the Japanese island of Hokkaido at their southern...
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The Invasion of the Kuril Islands (Russian: Курильская десантная операция, lit. 'Kuril Islands Landing Operation') was the World War II Soviet military...
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pronunciation: [ɕi̥botsɯ̥toː]) is an unpopulated and uninhabited island in the Kuril Island chain, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. Although it is administered by...
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Kurilian Bobtail (redirect from Kuril Islands Bobtail)
depending on registry) originating from the Russian Kuril Islands, as well as Sakhalin Island and the Kamchatka peninsula of Russia. Short- or long-haired...
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islands. Aleksandry, Franz Josef Land Atlasov Island, Kuril Islands Ayon Belkovsky, New Siberian Islands Bely Island, in the Kara Sea Bennett Island,...
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Territorial disputes of Japan (section Kuril Islands)
Kuril Islands are an archipelago stretching from the Japanese island of Hokkaido to the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula. The Kurils and the nearby island...
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The Kuril–Kamchatka Trench or Kuril Trench (Russian: Курило-Камчатский жёлоб, Kurilo-Kamchatskii Zhyolob) is an oceanic trench in the northwest Pacific...
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The 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred on November 15 at 8:14:16 pm JST with a Mw magnitude of 8.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IV (Light)...
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The 1963 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred at 05:17 UTC, on October 13. The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.5 and was followed by a Mw 7.8 event seven...
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Kuril Islands earthquake may refer to: 1963 Kuril Islands earthquake 1975 Kuril Islands earthquake 1994 Kuril Islands earthquake 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake...
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Japanese archipelago (redirect from Japanese islands)
the Kuril Islands, and the Nanpō Islands neighbor the archipelago. Japan is the largest island country in East Asia and the fourth-largest island country...
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Kunashir (redirect from Kunashir Island)
possibly meaning Black Island or Grass Island in Ainu, is the southernmost island of the Kuril Islands archipelago. The island has been under Russian...
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Russian-occupied territories (category Kuril Islands)
been involved in the Kuril Islands dispute due to Russia's 1991 inheritance of control over the four southernmost Kuril Islands, which Japan has claimed...
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islets (but for the Russian guards stationed there) in the southernmost Kuril Islands. They are currently under Russian administration, but together with...
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(artificial) Island City, Fukuoka (artificial) There are four disputed Kuril Islands that are controlled by Russia and claimed by Japan. These islands are called...
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volcano of the Kuril islands, part of the Sakhalin Oblast in Russia. The Russian name is sometimes rendered in English as Atlasova Island. Other names for...
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Shikotan (redirect from Shpanberg Island (Kuril Islands))
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...
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Japan–Russia relations (section Kuril Islands dispute)
invading the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo as well as seizing the Kuril chain of islands just north of Japan. The two countries ended their formal state...
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The 1994 Kuril Islands earthquake – also known as the Hokkaido Toho-oki earthquake – occurred on October 5 at 00:23:00 local time. The magnitude of this...
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well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai; they have occupied...
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Sea of Okhotsk (section Islands)
Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japan's island of Hokkaido on the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a...
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caldera, Onekotan Island, Kuril Islands, Russia) Medvezhya (Iturup Island, Kuril Islands, Russia) Milna (Simushir Island, Kuril Islands, Russia) Pinatubo...
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The 2007 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred east of the Kuril Islands on 13 January at 1:23 p.m. (JST). The shock had a moment magnitude of 8.1 and a maximum...
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The Pacific islands are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. They are further categorized into three major island groups: Melanesia, Micronesia, and...
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List of volcanoes in Russia (redirect from List of volcanoes in Kuril Islands)
northwestern Pacific Ocean and the Russian Far East. Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between the Kamchatka Peninsula and...
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Oceania (section Pacific Islands)
islands in his book as well, such as the Aleutian Islands, the Bonin Islands, the Japanese archipelago, the Juan Fernández Islands, the Kuril Islands...
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Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875) (redirect from Kuril Sakhalin exchange treaty)
the part of Sakhalin island it then owned in exchange for the group of the Kuril Islands owned by Russia (between Iturup island and the Kamchatka Peninsula)...
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Sakhalin (redirect from Sakhalin Islands)
divisions of the island between the two powers. In 1875, Japan ceded its claims to Russia in exchange for the northern Kuril Islands. In 1905, following...
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Iturup (redirect from Staten Island (phantom island))
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...
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