The Sakhalin Island Arc (Russian Сахалинские острова, Sakhalin Са̄халінскые острава) is an ancient volcanic arc dating from the Early Miocene. The arc was...

Sakhalin (Russian: Сахалин, IPA: [səxɐˈlʲin]) is an island in Northeast Asia. Its north coast lies 6.5 km (4.0 mi) off the southeastern coast of Khabarovsk...

Hokkaidō. The arc converges in a collision zone with the Sakhalin Island Arc and the Kuril Island Arc in the volcanic Ishikari Mountains of central Hokkaidō...

rettō (クリル列島, "Kuril Islands") or Chishima rettō (千島列島, "Thousand Islands")) are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian...

Leeward Antilles Scotia Arc South Sandwich Islands Insular Islands Intermontane Islands Sakhalin Island Arc Back-arc basin Island arc Subduction zone metamorphism...

geology: Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc Kuril Island Arc Northeastern Japan Arc Ryukyu Island Arc Sakhalin Island Arc Southwestern Japan Arc by the United Nations Statistics...

East (Northeast) Orient Japanese Archipelago Northeastern Japan Arc Sakhalin Island Arc Korea Gobi Desert Taklamakan Desert Greater Khingan Mongolian Plateau...

of three island arcs from north to south: the Northeastern Japan Arc, the Southwestern Japan Arc, and the Ryukyu Island Arc. The Daitō Islands, the Izu–Bonin–Mariana...

clear days the view extends to Hokkaidō, the adjacent island of Rebun, and as far as Sakhalin Island in Russia. The package of Shiroi Koibito includes a...

is part of a spur range extending to the west of the main Kuril islands arc. The island is a stratovolcano with a diameter of 4.25 km and with a central...

Cenozoic deposits of the Iturup island (Kuril islands). Geology and Mineral resources of the Sakhalin and Kuril islands. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 19e31 (in Russian)...

Examples are Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Sakhalin, Taiwan and Hainan off Asia; New Guinea, Tasmania, and Kangaroo Island off Australia; Great Britain, Ireland...

Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR, on 5 November 1952 at 04:58 local time. This led to the destruction of many settlements in Sakhalin Oblast...

was originally mistaken for molybdenite. The development of the Kuril Island arc was significantly influenced by extensive caldera-forming volcanic eruptions...

Mount Rebun (礼文岳, Rebun-dake) is the highest point on Rebun Island in Rebun, Hokkaidō, Japan. The mountain consists of marine sedimentary rocks from the...

the continent and giving rise to the Japanese island arc system of today.: 1  The Sea of Japan as a back-arc basin was open both to the northeast and to...

extending nearly 50 km west of the central part of the main Kuril Islands arc. The island is the top of a partially submerged stratovolcano rising approximately...

Onekotan. Makanrushi thus lies behind the main currently-active arc of Kuril Island volcanoes. Makanrushi appears to have never been inhabited. It appears...

largest island, after Paramushir, in the northern subgroup of the Kurils. It is administratively included in the Severo-Kurilsky District of Sakhalin oblast...

(archived December 23, 2010) Sakhalin Oblast Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ushishir. "International Kuril Island Project（IKIP）". University of...

arc around the Soviet territorial boundaries north of Moneron Island, an area of 225 square miles (583 km2), reaching to the west of Sakhalin Island....

Sakhalin Oblast of the Russian Federation.[citation needed] In the spring and summer northern fulmar and fork-tailed storm petrel nest on the island....

island arc. The islands of Japan were created by tectonic plate movements: Tohoku (upper half of Honshu), Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands, and Sakhalin are...

formed in the late Cretaceous, that created the Kuril island arc as well as the Kamchatka volcanic arc. The Pacific Plate is being subducted beneath the Okhotsk...

the chain and Sakhalin. Although the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan officially confirmed the Matsumae Domain’s claims to the island, the island remained outside...

The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese...

Honshū alpine conifer forests Sakhalin, Hokkaido, & Sikhote-Alin Coast Lake Biwa Honshu-Shikoku-Kyushu Ogasarawa Islands - Kazan Archipelago Not a complete...

the Soviet Union in 1991, the island became uninhabited. The Russian Federation administers it as part of the Sakhalin Oblast. In 2016 some two hundred...

and through the Strait of Tartary, between Sakhalin and mainland Russia. The Sea of Japan represents a back-arc basin that formed via geological rifting...

occurred in the late Devonian and early Carboniferous, when volcanic island arcs developed and accreted to the continental margin. During the subsequent...