Shumshu Island
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Sahalin /
Severo-Kurilsk /
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/ Sahalin
/ Severo-Kurilsk
, 25 km from center (Северо-Курильск)
World / Russia / Kamchatka
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Shumshu (Russian: Шумшу, romanized: Shumshu; Japanese: 占守島, romanized: Shumushu-tō; Ainu: スㇺス, lit. 'good island') is the second-northernmost island of the Kuril Islands chain, which divides the Sea of Okhotsk from the northwest Pacific Ocean. The name of the island is derived from the Ainu language, meaning "good island". It is separated from Paramushir by the very narrow Second Kuril Strait in the northeast 2.5 kilometres, and its northern tip is 11 kilometres, from Cape Lopatka at the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The island has a seasonal population of around 100 inhabitants.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumshu
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Coordinates: 50°44'52"N 156°20'38"E
- Atlasov Island Volcano 65 km
- Island Paramushir 80 km
- Antsiferov Island 115 km
- Makanrushi Island 174 km
- Onekotan Island 175 km
- Krenitsyn 194 km
- Kharimkotan Island 222 km
- Ekarma Island 264 km
- Chirinkotan Island 284 km
- Lake Bolshoye 5.9 km
- First Kuril Strait 19 km
- Lopatka Reef 26 km
- South Kamchatka State Sanctuary 71 km
- Kambalny Volcano, 2156 m 72 km
- Koshelev Volcano, 1812m 74 km
- Kurile Lake 95 km
- Ilyinsky Volcano, 1578 m 103 km
- Zheltovsky Volcano, 1953 m 115 km
- Vestnik bay 120 km