Shikotan

Shikotan (Russian Шикотан, Japanese色 丹 岛, Shikotan -tō, English Shikotan ) is one of the larger islands of the Kuril archipelago. It belongs to the Russian Sakhalin Oblast, but as the Chabomai islands of Japan as part of the sub-prefecture in the prefecture of Hokkaido Nemuro claimed.

The name " Shikotan " comes from the Ainu language and probably dates from si - kotan for " large village, large villages " from.

The area of ​​the island is 250.16 km ². The hilly island reaches a height of 412 m. Economic mainstay of the island is fishing. An earthquake followed by a tsunami caused major damage on 4 October 1994 on the coast of the island.

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Lichturm, 1980.

Landscape, 1980.