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Golovnin is a volcano located in the southern part of Kunashir Island, Kuril Islands, Russia. It is the southernmost volcano of the Kuril Islands. 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 Russias Sakhalin Oblast. ... Location of Kuril Islands in the Western Pacific. ...
Golovnin sailed round the Cape of Good Hope, and on the 5th of October 1809, arrived in Kamchatka.
In 1810, whilst attempting to survey the coast of the island of Kunashiri, he was seized by the Japanese, and was retained by them as a prisoner, until the i3th of October 1813, when he was liberated, and in the following year he returned to St Petersburg.
Golovnin published several works, of which the following are the most important :Journey to Kamchatba (2 vols., 1819); Journey Round the World (2 vols., 1822); and Narrative of my Captivity in Japan, 1811-1813 (2 vols., 1816).
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