Shumshu
Sign in to saveShumshu (; ; ) is the easternmost and 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 , and its northern tip is , from Cape Lopatka at the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The island has a seasonal population of around 100 inhabitants.
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- Russia
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- Shumshu
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- A Landsat 7 image of Shumshu Island. The northern tip of Paramushir Island is to the bottom left. The First Kuril Strait lies across the upper portion of the image.
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- Russia Sakhalin Oblast
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- Pacific Ocean
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Severo-Kurilsky District
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 388
- Elevation
- 189
- Time zone
- UTC+12:00
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- Shumshu.jpg
- Width
- 19.9
- Length
- 29.5
- Significant event
- Battle of Shumshu
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- Shumshu
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- Category:Shumshu
- name in kana
- しゅむしゅとう
- located in/on physical feature
- Shumshu
- described by source
- Geographical statistical dictionary of the Russian Empire
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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Shumshu (; ; ) is the easternmost and 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 , and its northern tip is , from Cape Lopatka at the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The island has a seasonal population of around 100 inhabitants.
==Geography== Shumshu is the least elevated in the entire Kuril group with a height of . The terrain is low-lying and covered with numerous lakes and marshland. Shumshu is roughly oval, and has an area of .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shumshu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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