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	Iturup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iturup is located near the southern end of the Kurile chain, between Kunashir (19 km to the SW) and Urup (37 km to the NE).
		Iturup consists of volcanic massifs and mountain ridges.
		In 1855 Iturup was ceded to Japan by the Treaty of Shimoda.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iturup (385 words)

	Kuril Islands - Iturup
		Iturup (Остров Итуруп) — known as Etorofu in Japanese — is the largest of the Kuril Islands, being located in the Southern Group of islands between Kunashir (19 km to the southwest across the Ekaterina Strait) and Urup (37 km to the northeast across the Vries Strait).
		The Pacific southeast coast of the island is ice-free.
		Iturup is one of several islands lying at the southern end of the Kuril Chain that are claimed by Japan.
	www.oceandots.com /pacific/kuril/iturup.htm (315 words)

	!New Mineral Rhenium Sulphide ReS2, Rheniit from fumarol fields, Kudriavyi volcano, Iturup, Kuril islands, Russia.
		Iturup island is placed in the South part of Kuril arc (1200 km length) in the East of Russia between Kamchatka peninsula and Japan islands, playing a role of a border between Okxotskoie sea and Pacific ocean.
		Island Iturup (200 km length, 6725 km sq.) is the biggest island in Kuril island arc.
		Iturup was formed by association of big number of volcanic buildings created with lavas and other products of eruption.
	www.cnt.ru /users/yakushev/rhenium (1453 words)

	World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations" :: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Iturup Island, on Friday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
		It was transported by railway from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk, by air - to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and by sea - to the Iturup Island.
		The building of the monument in the Iturup Island, a scene of fierce fighting during World War II, was initiated by the Centre of Russia's National Glory and the Foundation of St. Apostle Andrew The First Called.
	www.wpfdc.com /eng/news.php?tab_id=1&id=516 (819 words)

	"RUSSIAN MINING" - Mineral industry, mining industry of Russia, mining equipment, mineral resources, ore, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The offshore oceanic area adjacent to Iturup and Urup islands is considered as promising for mostly gas/condensate discoveries with total reserves of more than 1 billion tons.
		During the Japanese sovereignty, a number of deposits were exploited on Kunashir, Iturup, and Paramushir islands, and the produced sulfur was transported to Japan.
		On Iturup Island, the Okeanskoye deposit has been explored near the town of Kurilsk; its reserves are sufficient to completely cover the existing and future heat and power demand in the town.
	www.russian-mining.com /magazines/rm/2001/rm_1_2001/stat.php?stat=kuril&s2=1 (1105 words)

	The Russian Kuril Islands Expedition - The Village People
		Iturup is the largest of all the Kuril Islands.
		Kurilisk is one of four villages on Iturup.
		Iturup is near the coast of Japan's northern island, Hokkaido.
	www.theoceanadventure.com /KIIE/KI12.html (1207 words)

	ARS \| Publication request: Iturup and Sakhalin Island Strawberries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Interpretive Summary: A plant collecting expedition to Iturup and Sakhalin Islands, in Russia, occurred between 21 July and 12 September 2003.
		This species was similar in habit, leaf color and overall appearance, to some of the wild strawberries of the eastern United States.
		The native distribution of this species was limited to the middle elevation of the slope of this volcano, and only on Iturup Island.
	www.ars.usda.gov /research/publications/Publications.htm?seq_no_115=177440 (416 words)

	Strong earthquake jolts Northern Japan, Kurils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The earthquake was centered just below the seafloor about 125 miles southeast of the island of Iturup, Etorofu in Japanese, the agency said.
		Iturup is among several southern Kuril islands that are claimed by Japan but have been occupied by Russia since the end of World War II.
		On Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, the tremor was most strongly felt in Kushiro, about 560 miles northeast of Tokyo.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/02/08/japan.html (161 words)

	Kuril Islands: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There are 30 large and numerous small islands; Iturup is the largest.
		That was an...Russian-administered southern Kuril Islands--Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan and...
		KURIL ISLANDS kyoor el, koorel or Kuriles kyoor...There are 30 large and numerous small islands; Iturup is the largest.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/kuril_islands.jsp (1664 words)

	Untitled Document
		The island of Paramushir is the largest of the North Kurile islands and the second in area, after Iturup, in the whole Kuril chain.
		The island is elongated in the direction of trend of the arc, with a length of about 100 km and an average width of 20 km.
		Quaternary volcanic rocks and modern volcanoes are concentrated in the Northern and Southern parts of the island, forming the northern part of Vernadskii and Karpinsky Ridges.
	www.sveurop.org /gb/articles/articles/Kuril.htm (1536 words)

	Geologic Hazards Slides, Volume 2 - Earthquake Events
		Of these casualties, seven were buried under the ruins of a two- storymilitary hospital in Goryachie Klyuchi Village on Iturup island.
		This earthquake generated tsunamis, and the maximum runup height (about 5 m) was reported on the east coast of Iturup Island.
		Tsunami runup height measurements were made in Shikotan, Iturup, Kunashir, and small islands between Shikotan and Hokkaido (Ivaschenko et al., 1996; Yeh et al., 1995).
	www.ngdc.noaa.gov /seg/cdroms/geohazards_v2/document/647025.htm (2543 words)

	Print Version The Sakhalin Times™ on the WWW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Six killer whales trapped in ice on the shores of the southern Kuril Island of Iturup have died, a spokesman for the Sakhalin Fisheries Department said on March 4.
		Residents of Iturup’s Reidovo village, who witnessed the tragedy, failed to save the animals despite making titanic efforts.
		After the death of two whales in an ice trap, locals started trying to save the remaining four by digging a channel between the small patches of water in the ice to allow the whales to move and breathe.
	www.sakhalintimes.ru /print.php?id=1405_0_1_0 (265 words)

	Asia Times: Russia winning the hearts of Kurile islanders
		And, as the life of the islanders is gradually improving, they are less likely to agree to transferring the territory to Japan.
		In November 1998, when this reporter last visited, the Kuriles were gripped by a serious energy crisis and the island of Iturup was without electricity for 16 hours a day.
		At that time, the islanders were outraged with the situation in the populated southern Kurile Islands of Iturup, Kunashir, and Shikotan (Japan also claims a nearby group of uninhabited islets known as Habomai).
	www.atimes.com /c-asia/CG12Ag03.html (1012 words)

	The Jamestown Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		According to the Japan Times, one of these is to deal with conditions for the possible return by Russia to Japan of Shikotan and the Habomai group of islets.
		Another one is to deal with the fate of the other two islands Kunashir and Iturup.
		Indeed, the unspoken rationale behind Moscow's most recent bargaining appeared to involve dangling the possibility of returning two of the islands to Japan in exchange for finalization of the peace treaty deal and what Moscow hopes would be a follow-up surge of Japanese economic aid to--and investment in--Russia.
	www.jamestown.org /email-to-friend.php?article_id=18331 (938 words)

	Kudriavy (Kudryaviy) volcano, Iturup island, Kuril islands, Maritime province, Sakhalinskaya Oblast', Far-Eastern ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Kudriavy (Kudryaviy) volcano, Iturup island, Kuril islands, Maritime province, Sakhalinskaya Oblast', Far-Eastern Region, Russia
		The specimen was given to me by the Russian mineralogist Pavel M. Kartashov, and it is in the micromount collection of OT.
		Rheniite is the only known mineral with Rhenium as its primary metallic constituent and as such is a fascinating species.
	www.mindat.org /gallery.php?loc=10264 (343 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Iturup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Iturup; all previous versions may be viewed here.
		They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Iturup (509 words)

	Global Volcanism Program \| Atsonupuri \| Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Conical Atsonupuri stratovolcano forms a prominent peninsula joined to the SW side of Iturup Island by a low isthmus only 30 m high.
		A somma volcano whose caldera rim is exposed only at about 900 m elevation on the SE side was constructed during the late Pleistocene or early Holocene, forming an island up to about 1.5 km high that was later connected to Iturup Island by erosional material.
		A fault with large displacement offsets the NW side of the somma of Atsonupuri (also known as Etorofu-Atosanupuri).
	www.volcano.si.edu /world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0900-05= (174 words)

	The Russian Kuril Islands Expedition - Killer Whales! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We are headed to Iturup (it-oo-ROOP) Island and one of the largest villages in the southern Kuril Islands, named Kurilisk.
		As we travel across the open sea, between Urup and Iturup, I see something splashing in the water far ahead of us.
		Our captain says that the weather is so good we can try to make another beach landing before we visit the villlage.
	www.theoceanadventure.com /KIIE/KI11.html (840 words)

	University of Hannover - Institute of Mineralogy - Mitarbeiter - Dr. Roman Botcharnikov
		Botcharnikov, R.E., Knyazik, V.A., Steinberg, A.S., and Steinberg G.S. (1998) The emission of gases and petrogenetic and ore elements in the Kudriavy volcano on Iturup Island, the Kuriles.
		Korzhinsky, M.A., Tkachenko, S.I., Botcharnikov, R.E., and Shmulovich, K.I. (1998) Magmatic degasation and mineral-formation on the Kudriavy volcano (Iturup Island, Kuril Isles).
		Korzhinsky M.A., Tkachenko S.I., and Botcharnikov R.E. (2003) Influences of rainfalls on fumarolic activity of Kudriavy volcano, Iturup Isl., South Kuriles.
	www.min.uni-hannover.de /english/mitarbeiter/rbotcharnikov.htm (1082 words)

	Global Volcanism Program \| Lvinaya Past \| Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The rim of the dramatic 7 x 9 km wide Lvinaya Past (Lion's Jaw) caldera on southern Iturup Island drops to 50 m below sea level on the NW side.
		The volcano derives its name from a rock resembling a sleeping lion that breaches the surface at the center of the submerged caldera rim.
		Thick dacitic pumice deposits from this eruption form the 50-60 m high Yuzhny (Southern) isthmus, which joins the three southernmost volcanoes on Iturup Island, Rokko, Lvinaya Past, and Berutarube.
	www.volcano.si.edu /world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0900-041 (185 words)

	History of the Kuril Islands
		Japan and Russia agreed to divide the arc between Iturup and Urup, the Japanese taking the Southern and the Russians the Northern portion.
		So, Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and the Haboma Islands off the North of Hokaido were Japanese from 1855's Treaty of Shimoda
		Demarcation of the frontier in the Kurils between Iturup and Urup
	www.fortunecity.com /olympia/ince/698/rurik/kuril.html (2182 words)

	ExpeditionTrips.com: Trip Details Page
		Travel across the open sea to the largest village in the Kuril Islands, located on the largest of the Kuril Islands.
		The beach on Iturup is fl volcanic sand with plants that grow only 2-4 feet tall.
		Iturup is home to Steller's sea eagles and harlequin ducks.
	www.expeditiontrips.com /search/cruise.asp?tripid=1982 (1248 words)

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		Ecology of littoral foraminifera of the Iturup Island, Ochotsk Sea Annin, V.K. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Vladivostok, Russion Academy of Science, Baltiyskaya St. 43, 690041, Vladivostok, Russian Federation, annin@poi.dvo.ru The modern forams in 87 samples were studied from the littoral zone about Iturup.
		The purpose of this investigation was to determine the influence of environmental parameters on the structure of complexes.
		During sampling (August-September 1998) the temperature of water at stations changed from 9° to 19° C which increased to 35°-36° C at the exit of thermal water.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /hosted_sites/tms/tms-fg-abstracts.doc (6306 words)

	NEAR Earthquakes & Tsunamis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A vessel was thrown up a pier in Iturup Is.
		Fishing nets were dragged in to the sea.
		Run-ups in different sites are as follows: Yuzno-Kurilsk 4.8 and 237 m, Burevestnik (Iturup Is.) 3.4 and 70 m.
	www.science.sakhalin.ru /Tsunami/Near.htm (208 words)

	Spider Collector's Journal: Kuril Islands 1994
		For our first day on Iturup (largest Kuril island at 200 km long and 6725 square km), we sailed by the awe-inspiring Atsonupuri, a perfect 1205-meter volcanic cone rising straight out of the sea, at the north entrance to Dobroye Nachalo (good beginning) Bay: see map, right.
		16 VIII 1994: Konservnaya (cannery) Bay, on the east side of the "thumb" sticking up from Iturup (see map), is a picturesque spot that soon would be all too familiar to us, for we went there every year (sometimes twice) to take on fresh water at a waterfall plunging from an uninhabited plateau.
		On the 21st, the crew managed to get me on shore dry at the nearby Glush' River, where Kirill and I hiked up a steep road to 90 meters elevation, the highest (sad to say) from which spiders were taken on Iturup.
	crawford.tardigrade.net /journal/Journal06.html (3264 words)

	Earthquake and Tsunami of October 4, 1994 IN THE KURIL ISLANDS - Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis
		Most affected by damaging waves were the islands of Shikotan, Kunashir and Iturup, in the South Kurils.
		Following the disaster, a team of international scientists made measurements of tsunami runup heights at Shikotan, Iturup, Kunashir, and the small islands between Shikotan and Hokkaido
		Zlobin T. Lithosphere sructure in the region of the Iturup Island from seismic data.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /Tsunami1994RussiaKurils.html (4285 words)

	Kuril Islands
		Four volcanoes and many inactive ones permeate Iturup Island, making it a fascinating site for volcanic research.
		The island is also characteristic for the remarkable phenomenon: high-temperature ore formation near the fumarole mouths with the temperature up to 920oC (the Kudriavy volcano).
		Because of the temperature parameters of its fumarole activity, the Kudriavy volcano is enlisted in the Ginnes Book of Records.
	www.ecotours.ru /english/tours/scien1.htm?&print=yes (1324 words)

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