Atlasov Island from space, September 1992

Atlasov Island

Located at 50°50′ N 155°30′ E , Atlasov Island, known in Japanese as Oyakoba, is the northernmost island of the Kuril islands, part of the Sakhalin Oblast in Russia. The Russian name is sometimes rendered in English as Atlasova Island or Ostrov Atlasova. Other names for the island include Uyakhuzhach, Araito and Alaid. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (639x639, 100 KB) Atlasov Island, Kuril Islands, Russia - September 1992 image description here File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (639x639, 100 KB) Atlasov Island, Kuril Islands, Russia - September 1992 image description here File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (878x578, 214 KB)Atlasov Island. ... Download high resolution version (878x578, 214 KB)Atlasov Island. ... For the political history of the sovereignty conflict, see Kuril Islands dispute. ... The Sakhalin Oblast (Russian: Сахали́нская о́бласть) is a regional subdivision of Russia. ...

The island is named after Vladimir Atlasov, a 17th century Russian explorer who incorporated the nearby Kamchatka Peninsula into Russia. It is essentially the cone of a submarine volcano protruding above the Sea of Okhotsk to a height of 2339 m (7672 ft). The island has an area of 119 km² (46 sq mi), but is currently uninhabited. Vladimir Vassilievich Atlasov (according to some accounts - Otlasov) (Атласов (Отласов), Владимир Васильевич in Russian)(born between 1661 and 1664 - died in 1711), Russian explorer, Siberian Cossack. ... Kamchatka is the land of volcanoes. ... Sea of Okhotsk The Sea of Okhotsk (named after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East) is a part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaido to the far south, the island...

Its near perfect shape gave rise to many legends about the volcano among the peoples of the region, such as the Itelmens and Kuril Ainu. The Russian scientist Stepan Krasheninnikov was told the story that it was once a mountain in Kamchatka, but the neighbouring mountains became jealous of its beauty and exiled it to the sea, leaving behind Lake Kuril in southern Kamchatka. Geographically, this story is not without evidence, as after the last Ice Age most of the icecaps melted, raising the world's water level, and possibly submerging a landbridge to the volcano. The Itelmen are an ethnic group that live on the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Federation. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Ainu (pronounced , eye-noo, are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaido, the northern part of Honshu in Northern Japan, the Kuril Islands, much of Sakhalin, and the southernmost third of the Kamchatka peninsula. ... Stepan Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755) was a Russian explorer and scientist who gave the first full description of Kamchatka in the early eighteenth century. ...

Ito Osamu (1926) described it as more exquisitely shaped than Mt. Fuji. Mount Fuji (富士山 Fuji-san, IPA: [ɸuʝisaɴ]) is the highest mountain on the island of Honshu and indeed in all of Japan. ...

External links

• The Russian Kuril Islands Expedition to Atlasov