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	Kunashir Island Summary
		The island was occupied by the Soviet Union in August 1945.
		Kunashir Island (Кунашир (Kunashir) in Russian, 国後島:Kunashiri in Japanese, Black Island in Ainu language) is the southernmost island in the Kuril chain in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast.
		Kunashir is formed by four volcanoes which were separate islands but have since joined together by low-lying areas with lakes and hot springs.
	www.bookrags.com /Kunashir_Island (510 words)

	Kunashir Island - Igor Shpilenok Russian Nature Photography
		We were lured to Kunashir by stories of pristine wilderness, wild salmon runs, and bears – more than 200 inhabit the island, the largest density of bears in all of Russia.
		Elated to have finally arrived on the island, we realize that our mission to document Kunashir is all the more pressing due to growing threats from gold mining, overfishing, and political disputes with Japan, which could jeopardize the sanctity of the island and its strictly protected nature reserve.
		Kunashir is on one of the nine major migratory routes for birds in the world, and thousands of ducks, geese, and waders stop here in spring and fall.
	www.shpilenok.com /expeditions/Expedition_Kunashir/Kunashir.htm (2329 words)

	The brief contents
		The island Kunashir is unbound from Japan by rather narrow and superficial channels Kunashir Treason.
		The settlement Malokurilskoye, arranged in 4-5 km to the north of a bay Crab, is an administrative centre of an island.
		The island Iturup is arranged in 12 miles to north-east from islands Kunashir.
	members.tripod.com /~merkulov/BRIEFE.HTM (3372 words)

	Japan - MSN Encarta
		Japan comprises the four main islands of Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū, and Shikoku, in addition to numerous smaller islands.
		According to legend, the Japanese islands were created by gods, who dipped a jeweled spear into a muddy sea and formed solid earth from its droplets.
		Japan’s four main islands are separated by narrow straits: Tsugaru Strait lies between Hokkaidō and Honshū, and the narrow Kammon Strait lies between Honshū and Kyūshū.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761566679 (1311 words)

	Laura Williams - Kurilsky Zapovednik
		Kunashir Island, half of which is protected by Kurilsky Zapovednik, is the southernmost link in a chain of volcanic islands reaching a thousand kilometers from Japan north to Kamchatka.
		Kunashir is located along one of the nine major migratory routes for birds in the world.
		Kunashir, directly across the Kunashirsky Strait from the Japanese island of Hokaiddo, means "fl earth" in Ainu, probably named for the dark volcanic soils that make up the island.
	www.kunashir.ru /zapovednik/lib/6.php (2756 words)

	Pacific Ocean - Kuril Islands
		Located in the cold waters of the northwestern Pacific Ocean, the Kuril Islands stretch for 1,250 km from the southern tip of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula southwards to the Japanese island of Hokkaido, thus forming a neat boundary between the Sea of Okhotsk (on the west) and the Pacific Ocean (on the east).
		The islands are divided into three sub-groups that are separated by deep (up to 2,000 m) straits: the Northern Kuril Islands (Shumshu to Shiashkotan) are separated from the Central Kuril Islands (Matua to Simushir) by the Krusentern Strait.
		Several of the islands are large: Iturup (3,200 km²;), Paramushir (2,053 km²;), Kunashir (1,490 km²;) and Urup (1,450 km²) —; they are highly distinctive in their narrow and elongate forms that are dotted with chains of volcanoes.
	www.oceandots.com /pacific/kuril (738 words)

	The Kurile Islands
		Soviet forces occupied Shimushu Island in the Kuriles on August 18, and on August 27, moved as far south as Urup Island, which is the southernmost point of the Kurile Islands, and then retreated.
		Thus, it is considered that only the question of Etorofu and Kunashir Islands remain as an issue to be resolved in the peace treaty negotiations.
		The idea was to liberate the islands from the heavy hand of Moscow by giving them control over the exports, the right to keep foreign currency earned through trade, and the power to impose quotas on foreign vessels fishing in Kuril waters.
	members.tripod.com /~merkulov/TEXTS01/THEK.HTM (3991 words)

	Travel East Russia - Kunashir
		Kunashir, which actually means "fl pearl", is the most southern island and is actually quite close to Japan (10 kilometers).
		The people on the island are by far the most hospitable you will meet in Russia and circumstances are still such that you can walk into any house, as the doors are always open.
		The weather on this side of the island is mostly sunny.
	www.traveleastrussia.com /kunashir.html (2653 words)

	FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The island of Sakhalin is situated on the eastern coast of the largest landmass on Earth, the Eurasian continent.
		The island is 948 km long, with a maximum width of 160 km and a minimum of 26 km (at the Poyasok isthmus).
		The island is washed by the warm waters of the Sea of Japan on the south and west, and by the cold Sea of Okhotsk on the north and east.
	www.sakhalin.ru /Engl/Region/book/Antiquity_to.htm (2163 words)

	:: Itinerary :: Odyssey Travel ::
		The Commander Islands are home to a huge number of birds, including horned and tufted puffins, crested and parakeet auklets, thick billed murres, red-legged kittiwakes, and red-faced cormorants.
		At 2339m, the Alaid Volcano on this island is the highest volcano in the Kuril chain.
		The island is known to have a good population of brown bear.
	www.odysseytravel.com.au /index.pl?page=2011 (1305 words)

	Circumpolar Expeditions -Travel to Alaska, Russian Far East, Siberia, and Arctic and even to the North Pole.
		The name Shumagin was given to this group of over a dozen islands by members of Vitus Bering's expedition to honor one of their own who died there.
		The island of Yankicha suggests an episode from "Lord of the Rings." High mountain peaks surround a beautiful caldera with bubbling vents and pools of gurgling springs.
		Kunashir Island's ownership is a matter of dispute between Russia and Japan as a result of World War II, when Russia took it over following Japan's surrender.
	www.arctictravel.net /ringofire.html (1698 words)

	Nordic Travel. Russian Far East and Kamchatka:: The Kurils: Precious Isles of Russia
		Kunashir Island is the most southern island of the Kuril Chain.
		There are many thermal pools on the islands, which used to be the objects of religious ceremonies and legends of Ainu.
		The central height of the island is Alaid (Oyakoba) volcano, the highest one on Kuril Islands.
	nordictravel.ru /fareast/kurils.html (2530 words)

	Geologic Hazards Slides, Volume 2 - Earthquake Events
		On Shikotan Island, two people were killed by falling building debris as they tried to leave their apartments.
		However, severe seismic shaking and damage was reported in the large area between Urup Island in the north and Kushiro, Japan, in the south.
		The bridge near the mouth of a small river was destroyed and moved along the river nearly 200 meters by the tsunami wave (approximately 1.7 meters high).
	www.smate.wwu.edu /teched/geology/eq-Kuril.html (2543 words)

	SAKHALIN.RU: Sakhalin and the Kuriles. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is bordered by the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk, the Sea of Japan, and the Pacific Ocean.
		On January 2, 1947, South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands were included as parts of the Sakhalin Region, and the Region was simultaneously designated as a separate territory of the Russian Federation.
		Autumn 1918 — the authority of the administration of Admiral A. Kolchak is extended to the island.
	www.sakhalin.ru /Engl/Region/history.htm (2010 words)

	Islands of the Russian Far East, INTRAV Luxury Tours
		Kunashir Island - Although officially part of Russia, ownership of Kunashir is still disputed by Japan as part of the World War II conflict between the two nations.
		AtIasova Island - Small Atlasova is made of the gigantic Alaid volcano, the tallest and one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril Islands.
		Encounter fascinating geology and rich cultural traditions as you explore the Kurils, an arc of some 20 volcanic islands that stretch from Japan to Kamchatka and are among the least-visited and most-pristine environments on Earth.
	www.luxurytour.com /intrav/europe/islandsoftherussianfareast.html (1700 words)

	Earthquake and Tsunami of October 4, 1994 IN THE KURIL ISLANDS - Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis
		The Kuril island arc is located between the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
		Sakhalin island, north of Hokkaido, which separates the Sea of Japan from the Sea of Okhotsk is probably the result of transpressional tectonics along the North America-Eurasia boundary.
		According to reports, Shikotan Island was one of the hardest-hit areas by both the earthquake and the tsunami.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /Tsunami1994RussiaKurils.html (4617 words)

	Hazard Slides Captions
		The main building of the elementary school in Krabosavodskoe, Shikotan Island, was damaged by the October 4, 1994 earthquake.
		The earthquake destroyed a hospital at Goryachiye Klyuchi settlement on Iturup Island.
		This dock on Yuzhno-Kurilsk, Kunashir Island, was damaged by the tsunami.
	www.ngdc.noaa.gov /seg/hazard/slideset/40/40_captions.shtml (559 words)

	CO2 Science
		Kunashir is the southernmost large island in the Kurile Island chain belonging to Russia.
		extracted cores from century-old oaks (Quercus crispula) growing on Kunashir Island within one km of the Pacific Ocean and developed them into a four-century tree-ring width index series that was shown to correlate strongly with Island summer (June-September) air temperature.
		The long-term reconstructed temperature history of Kunashir Island bears absolutely no resemblance to the IPCC-endorsed "hockeystick" temperature record of Mann et al.
	www.co2science.org /scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V7/N35/C2.jsp (278 words)

	MASTER JUMP PAGE
		“Kunashir” is translated as “fl island” in the language of the original aboriginal inhabitants, the Ainu.
		Kunashir island stretches for 76 miles from southwest to northeast and has a surface area of 579 square miles.
		The Kurile Islands were first charted by Dutch seamen in the 17th century.
	oregonmag.com /KurileIslands.htm (1059 words)

	The lure of Nashir.(Kurile Islands, Russia) - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		So ends our third day on Kunashir Island, the last stop on a 5,000-mile trip across Russia to document the country's vast protected areas system, which began from our home in the Bryansk Forest Nature Reserve in western Russia.
		We were lured to Kunashir by stories of pristine wilderness, wild salmon runs and bears -- more than 200 inhabit the island, the largest density of bears in all of Russia.
		Japan claims the islands of Kunashir, Iturup, Shikotan and the Habomais, which were seized by the Soviets in the last days of World War II.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-2976787_ITM (2770 words)

	Russian emigrants tread water off Japanese bay - Russian inhabitants of Kuril Islands Insight on the News - Find ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yet Kunashir -- along with the islands of Iturup and Shikotan that make up the Kuril chain -- has for decades kept two of the world's major powers from signing a World War II peace treaty and held up billions of dollars in aid and investment.
		Although Tokyo long ago forsook claims to Sakhalin Island and the northern Kurils, which alternately had been Russian and Japanese anyway, it refuses to sign a peace treaty with Russia until the southern Kurils are returned.
		In Shikotan, the smallest of the three inhabited islands, a referendum revealed that 84 percent of voters favored returning the island to the Japanese.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n50_v10/ai_15981068 (891 words)

	www.rian.ru
		The remaining 12 fishermen were rescued after the ship went down six kilometers (four miles) off Kunashir Island, one of Russia's South Kuril Islands, at 1:00 p.m.
		The body of the dead crewmember has been recovered, and the rescued have been taken to Kunashir Island.
		"Border guards are assisting in the search by scanning the sea from their watchtowers on Kunashir Island," the sea rescue service on Sakhalin Island, west of Kunashir, said, adding that aviation might also be engaged.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20061116/55687375-print.html (166 words)

	Abstract 40(1-2), no. 85
		Kunashir Island is a very important site for paleoenvironmental reconstructions.
		We studied the environmental evolution of this oceanic island under the influence of geomorphological processes, volcanism and strong marine currents.
		This paper presents new data that allow a detailed reconstruction of the environmental development of Kunashir Island during the Late Pleistocene-Holocene, based on ca.
	www.radiocarbon.org /Journal/v40n1-2/Abstracts/85.html (102 words)

	Kunashir Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Today this chain of mountainous islands of volcanic origin stretches for almost 1200 km from north-east to south-west, from the Kamchatka Peninsula to Hokkaido Island.
		Kunashir Island (which means "Black Island" in the language of native Ainu people) is the southernmost of the islands of the Kuril Ridge.
		This island is oriented from north to south for 130 km, and its width varies from 9 to 30 km.
	www.wildsalmoncenter.org /pops/KunashirIsland.php (267 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Japan seeks return of fishermen
		The three other crew members are being detained on the island of Kunashir, accused of poaching and illegal entry.
		Another vice foreign minister, Akiko Yamanaka, is to travel from Japan's northern-most island of Hokkaido to the island of Kunashir, where the men are being held, to receive the body of the dead man.
		The four islands in question were seized by the Soviet Union at the end of the war in 1945.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/5262566.stm (393 words)

	Kurilsky Zapovednik
		Three species of snakes are put K 1 here endemic to Kunashir Island.
		Tyatya is the highest and most spectacular volcano on Kunashir.
		Forests on the island are filled with the chirping songs of tits (Parus spp.
	www.wild-russia.org /bioregion14/14-kurilsky/14_kurilsky.htm (2845 words)

	Red-carpet treatment / Japan tries hospitality in bid to reclaim Kurils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The visitors were residents of the disputed Kuril islands, governed by Russia but claimed by Japan, and were invited by a local government anxious to sell them on the idea of Japanese sovereignty.
		Yoichi Nakano, chief of the secretariat of the Hokkaido Commission for Developing Relations with the Northern Islands, says the hospitality program is important since the Russian government in far-off Moscow refuses to return the islands of Iturup (Etorofu in Japan), Kunashir (Kunashiri), Shikotan and a group of 10 uninhabited islets known as Habomai.
		The Kurils are part of a volcanic chain of 56 islands that extends 744 miles from Hokkaido to Russia's Kamchatka peninsula and was explored by Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/08/14/MN155972.DTL (1166 words)

	Kurilsky, Islands and Sea, an excerpt from Russian Conservation News #18
		For example, Kunashir means "fl earth" in the Ainu language, perhaps originating from the dark hue the coniferous forests give the island; Shikotan means "better settlement." The Ainu lived in harmony with nature, barely disturbing the unique environment in which they lived.
		Throughout the centuries the islands have remained primarily intact and today certain sections are preserved in Kurilsky Zapovednik.
		The Zapovednik consists of three separate parts: the northern and southern sites are located on Kunashir Island, the southernmost island of Big Kurile Chain, while the third site lies on Demina and Oskolki Islands, two rocky islands in the Small Kurile Chain.
	www.russianconservation.org /kurilsky.html (866 words)

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