Onekotan Island (Russia)
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Name (Hebrew)
וונקוטאן (רוסיה : אי)
Name (Latin)
Onekotan Island (Russia)
Other forms of name
Onnekotan Island (Russia)
Onnekotan-to (Russia)
Ostrov Onekotan (Russia)
Coordinates
154.7666667 154.7666667 49.45 49.45 (gooearth )
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Islands Russia (Federation)
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Kuril Islands (Russia)
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q1043134
Library of congress:
sh2003002468
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Reindeer (Ship : 1853-1871). Logbook, 1853 Oct. 4-1856 Feb. 11(Onekotan Island)
- National Imagery and Mapping Agency WWW Home page, Sept. 10, 2003(Onekotan, Ostrov; Russia; Island; 49⁰26ʹ39ʺN 154⁰45ʹ29ʺE; variant: Onekotan-to)
- Lippincott(Onekotan Island or Onnekotan Island; one of north main Kurile Islands)
Wikipedia description:
Onekotan (Russian: Онекотан; Japanese 温禰古丹島; Onekotan-tō, occasionally Onnekotan-tō, Ainu: オネコタン or オネコタㇴ) 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.
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