Onekotan
Sign in to saveOnekotan (; , occasionally ; ) is an uninhabited volcanic island located 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 for "large village”. It is the second largest island, after Paramushir, in the northern subgroup of the Kurils. It is administratively included in the Severo-Kurilsky District of Sakhalin oblast, Russia.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Onekotan
- Islands.pushpin_map
- Russia Sakhalin Oblast
- Islands.pushpin_map_relief
- 1
- Islands.image_name
- OnekotanNASA.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- Onekotan Island (centre) from space, October 1994. North at top
- Islands.area_km2
- 425
- Islands.location
- Sea of Okhotsk
- Islands.map_image
- Kuriles Onekotan.PNG
- Islands.archipelago
- Kuril Islands
- Islands.country
- Russia
- Islands.highest_mount
- Krenitsyn
- Islands.elevation_m
- 1324
- Islands.population
- 0
- Islands.ethnic_groups
- Ainu (formerly)
- Islands.mapframe
- yes
- Islands.mapframe zoom
- 7
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- Geography and geology
- Climate
- History
- Flora and fauna
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- Notes
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Onekotan (; , occasionally ; ) is an uninhabited volcanic island located 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 for "large village”. It is the second largest island, after Paramushir, in the northern subgroup of the Kurils. It is administratively included in the Severo-Kurilsky District of Sakhalin oblast, Russia.
==Geography and geology== Onekotan is roughly rectangular, with a length of , and a width ranging from . It has an area of
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