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Paramushir
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Paramushir (; ) is a volcanic island in the northern portion of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is separated from Shumshu by the very narrow Second Kuril Strait in the northeast , from Antsiferov by the Luzhin Strait () to the southwest, from Atlasov in the northwest by , and from Onekotan in the south by the wide Fourth Kuril Strait. Its northern tip is from Cape Lopatka at the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Severo-Kurilsk, the administrative center of the Severo-Kurilsky district, is the only permanently populated settlement on Param
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Paramushir
- Islands.image_name
- MapParamushir.png
- Islands.image_caption
- Map of Paramushir Island
- Islands.pushpin_map
- Russia Sakhalin Oblast
- Islands.pushpin_map_relief
- 1
- Islands.map_image
- Kuriles Paramushir.PNG
- Islands.location
- Pacific Ocean
- Islands.archipelago
- Kuril Island
- Islands.area_km2
- 2053
- Islands.length_km
- 100
- Islands.width_km
- 20
- Islands.highest_mount
- Chikurachki
- Islands.elevation_m
- 1816
- Islands.country
- Russia
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- Oblast
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- Sakhalin Oblast
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
- District
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Severo-Kurilsky
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Severo-Kurilsky District
- Capital
- Severo-Kurilsk
- Population
- 2470
- Area
- 2471
- Elevation
- 1816
- Time zone
- UTC+12:00
- Body of water
- Fourth Kuril Strait
- Highest point
- Chikurachki
- Image
- Paramushir, Atlasov, Shumshu - Landsat 7.jpg
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- Category:Paramushir
- Commons category
- Paramushir
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- name in kana
- ぱらむしるとう
- located in/on physical feature
- Paramushir
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Geography and geology
- Climate and flora, fauna, and funga
- History
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Paramushir (; ) is a volcanic island in the northern portion of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is separated from Shumshu by the very narrow Second Kuril Strait in the northeast , from Antsiferov by the Luzhin Strait () to the southwest, from Atlasov in the northwest by , and from Onekotan in the south by the wide Fourth Kuril Strait. Its northern tip is from Cape Lopatka at the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Severo-Kurilsk, the administrative center of the Severo-Kurilsky district, is the only permanently populated settlement on Paramushir island.
==Geography and geology==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paramushir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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