Antsiferov Island

The Anziferow Island, also Schirinki (Russian остров Анциферова / ostrow Anziferowa, Japanese志 林 规 岛, Shirinki -tō ) is an island belonging to Russia the northern Kurilengruppe.

The area of ​​the island is about 7 km ². It is approximately circular with a diameter of 3 km.

The island after the Russian Cossacks Danila Yakovlevich Anziferow was named (* unknown, † 1712), who was after the death of Vladimir Atlassows Ataman from 1711 on Kamchatka. He belonged to the first group of Russians on the islands Paramushir and Schumschu and provided the first description of the islands. He was killed by Itelmens.

The Anziferow Island is located southwest of Paramushir, from which it is separated by the 15 km wide Kuril third parties or Luzhin Strait. The Luzhin Strait is named after the Russian surveyors and cartographers Fyodor Luzhin (* unknown, † 1727) named. Luzhin mapped 1719-1721 Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands, was active in Eastern Siberia 1723-1724 and 1725-1727 participant of Vitus Bering's First Kamchatka.

The island represents the projecting over the sea, 761 m high part of the extinct volcano Schirinki ( Ширинки ) dar.

Anziferow is uninhabited. Administratively, the island belongs to Rajon Severo- Kurilsk ( Nordkurilen, administrative center of Severo- Kurilsk on Paramushir ).