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Also known as Harimukotan

Harimkotan (; ; alternatively , ) is an uninhabited volcanic island located from Onekotan 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, from 'village of many Cardiocrinum.'

Key facts

Islands.name
Harimkotan
Islands.native_name
Харимкотан 春牟古丹島
Islands.image_name
Kharimkotan - ISS005.jpg
Islands.image_caption
Astronaut photograph of Harimkotan Island from International Space Station
Islands.area_km2
68
Islands.location
Sea of Okhotsk
Islands.pushpin_map
Russia Sakhalin Oblast
Islands.pushpin_map_relief
1
Islands.map_image
Kuriles Kharimkotan.PNG
Islands.archipelago
Kuril Islands
Islands.country
Russia
Islands.highest_mount
Pik Severgin
Islands.elevation_m
1145
Islands.population
0
Islands.ethnic_groups
Ainu (formerly)
Islands.mapframe
yes
Islands.mapframe zoom
08

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
island
Population
0
Area
68
Elevation
1145
Time zone
UTC+12:00
Body of water
Krenitsyn Strait
Image
Kharimkotan - ISS005.jpg
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Commons category
Kharimkotan
name in kana
はりむこたんとう
located in/on physical feature
Kuril Islands
Sources (2)

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Geology
  • History
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

Harimkotan (; ; alternatively , ) is an uninhabited volcanic island located from Onekotan 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, from 'village of many Cardiocrinum.'

thumb|Topographic map of Onekotan with Harimkotan

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kharimkotan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map

2 mapped locations