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    The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (/ˈk(j)ʊərɪl, kjʊˈriːl/; Russian: Кури́льские острова́, romanized: Kuril'skiye ostrova, IPA: [kʊˈrʲilʲskʲɪjə ɐstrɐˈva];...
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    ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands. The Kuril Islands are a chain of islands that stretch between the Japanese island of Hokkaido at their southern...
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    The Invasion of the Kuril Islands (Russian: Курильская десантная операция, lit. 'Kuril Islands Landing Operation') was the World War II Soviet military...
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    islands. Aleksandry, Franz Josef Land Atlasov Island, Kuril Islands Ayon Belkovsky, New Siberian Islands Bely Island, in the Kara Sea Bennett Island,...
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    depending on registry) originating from the Russian Kuril Islands, as well as Sakhalin Island and the Kamchatka peninsula of Russia. Short- or long-haired...
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    Shikotan, also known as Shpanberg or Spanberg, is an island in the Kurils administered by the Russian Federation as part of Yuzhno-Kurilsky District of...
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    The Kuril–Kamchatka Trench or Kuril Trench (Russian: Курило-Камчатский жёлоб, Kurilo-Kamchatskii Zhyolob) is an oceanic trench in the northwest Pacific...
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    Kuril Islands are an archipelago stretching from the Japanese island of Hokkaido to the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula. The Kurils and the nearby island...
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  • The 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred on November 15 at 8:14:16 pm JST with a Mw magnitude of 8.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IV (Light)...
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  • The 1994 Kuril Islands earthquake – also known as the Hokkaido Toho-oki earthquake – occurred on October 5 at 00:23:00 local time. The magnitude of this...
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    volcano of the Kuril islands, part of the Sakhalin Oblast in Russia. The Russian name is sometimes rendered in English as Atlasova Island. Other names for...
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  • Kuril Islands earthquake may refer to: 1963 Kuril Islands earthquake 1975 Kuril Islands earthquake 1994 Kuril Islands earthquake 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake...
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    pronunciation: [ɕi̥botsɯ̥toː]) is an unpopulated and uninhabited island in the Kuril Island chain, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. Although it is administered by...
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    the Kuril Islands, and the Nanpō Islands neighbor the archipelago. Japan is the largest island country in East Asia and the fourth-largest island country...
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    Kunashir (redirect from Kunashir Island)
    the Kurils. It is claimed by Japan (see Kuril Islands dispute). Kunashir is separated by the Catherine Strait (Kunashiri Suido) from the island of Iturup...
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  • The 1963 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred at 05:17 UTC, on October 13. The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.5 and was followed by a Mw 7.8 event seven...
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    the part of Sakhalin island it then owned in exchange for the group of the Kuril Islands owned by Russia (between Iturup island and the Kamchatka Peninsula)...
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    (artificial) Island City, Fukuoka (artificial) There are four disputed Kuril Islands that are controlled by Russia and claimed by Japan. These islands are called...
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    Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japan's island of Hokkaido on the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a...
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    (but for the Russian guards stationed there) in the southernmost Kuril Islands. The islands have been under Soviet / Russian administration since the 1945...
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  • northwestern Pacific Ocean and the Russian Far East. Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between the Kamchatka Peninsula and...
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    Russian-occupied territories (category Kuril Islands)
    been involved in the Kuril Islands dispute due to Russia's 1991 inheritance of control over the four southernmost Kuril Islands, which Japan has claimed...
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    invading the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo as well as seizing the Kuril chain of islands just north of Japan. The two countries ended their formal state...
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    southern Kurils and forcibly removed its Japanese residents. Japan continues to claim the islands and considers the northern edge of the island to be its...
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    caldera, Onekotan Island, Kuril Islands, Russia) Medvezhya (Iturup Island, Kuril Islands, Russia) Milna (Simushir Island, Kuril Islands, Russia) Pinatubo...
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  • The 2007 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred east of the Kuril Islands on 13 January at 1:23 p.m. (JST). The shock had a moment magnitude of 8.1 and a maximum...
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    well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai. They have occupied...
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  • The 1958 Kuril Islands earthquake or Etorofu earthquake was a Mw 8.3–8.4 earthquake that struck near the Kuril island of Iturup on November 6, 1958, at...
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  • Kuril Ainu or Kuril is an extinct and poorly attested Ainu language of the Kuril Islands. The main inhabited islands were Kunashir, Iturup and Urup in...
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    Bonin Islands, the Japanese archipelago, the Juan Fernández Islands, the Kuril Islands, the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, California's Channel Islands and Farallon...
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