Ketoy
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Ketoy (or Ketoi) (; Japanese 計吐夷島; Ketoi-tō) is an uninhabited volcanic island located in the centre of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language for "skeleton" or "bad".
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Ketoy
- Islands.native_name
- Кетой 計吐夷島
- Islands.image_name
- Ketoj.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- Oblique astronaut photograph of Ketoy, with both crater lakes visible
- Islands.area_km2
- 73
- Islands.location
- Sea of Okhotsk
- Islands.map_image
- Kuriles Ketoy.PNG
- Islands.archipelago
- Kuril Islands
- Islands.country
- Russia
- Islands.highest_mount
- Ketoy
- Islands.elevation_m
- 1172
- Islands.population
- 0
- Islands.ethnic_groups
- Ainu (formerly)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Severo-Kurilsky District
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 73
- Elevation
- 1172
- Time zone
- UTC+12:00
- Body of water
- Diana Strait
- Location
- Sea of Okhotsk
- Image
- Ketoj.jpg
- Width
- 9
- Length
- 12
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- Commons category
- Ketoy
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- name in kana
- けといとう
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Ketoy (or Ketoi) (; Japanese 計吐夷島; Ketoi-tō) is an uninhabited volcanic island located in the centre of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language for "skeleton" or "bad".
thumb|Topographic map of Ketoy thumb|Astronaut photograph of Ketoy from the International Space Station
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ketoy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
2 mapped locations