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. It is one of islands in the Kuril chain which are claimed by Japan (see Kuril Islands dispute). Jump to: navigation, search The Ainu language (Ainu: アイヌ イタㇰ, aynu itak; Japanese: アイヌ語, ainu-go) is spoken by the Ainu ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. ... 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 Kuril Islands with the disputed islands highlighted The Kuril Island conflict is a dispute between Japan and Russia over sovereignty over the southernmost Kuril Islands. ...

It lies between the straits of Kunashir, Catherine, Izmena and South Kuril. Simplified diagram A strait is a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water, and thus lies between two land masses. ...

• Area - 1490 sq km
• Length - 123 km
• Width - 4-30 km

Kunashir is formed by four volcanoes which were separate islands but have since joined together by low-lying areas with lakes and hot springs. All these volcanoes are still active: Tyatya (1819 m), Rurui in the Dokuchaev ridge, Mendeleev and Golovnin). This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... In general English usage, length (symbols: l, L) is but one particular instance of distance – an objects length is how long the object is – but in the physical sciences and engineering, the word length is in some contexts used synonymously with distance. Height is vertical distance; width (or breadth... KM, Km, or km may stand for: Khmer language (ISO 639 alpha-2, km) Kilometre Kinemantra Meditation Knowledge management KM programming language Comoros (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) the Michaelis-Menten constant Km, see Michaelis-Menten kinetics Kamenz (district), Germany (license plate indication) Messenia, Greece (license plate indication... In general English usage, length (symbol: l) is but one particular instance of distance – an objects length is how long the object is – but in the physical sciences and engineering, the word length is in some contexts used synonymously with distance. Height is vertical distance; width (or breadth) is... Jump to: navigation, search A volcano is a geological landform (usually a mountain) where magma (rock of the Earths interior made molten or liquid by extremely high temperatures along with a reduction in pressure and/or the introduction of water or other volatiles) erupts through the surface of the... A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. ... Green Dragon Spring at Norris Geyser A hot spring is a place where warm or hot groundwater issues from the ground on a regular basis for at least a predictable part of the year, and is significantly above the ambient ground temperature (which is usually around 55~57°F or... Vasily Vasilievich Dokuchaev (Василий Васильевич Докучаев) (1840 – 1903) was a Russian geologist. ... A ridge is a geological feature that features a continuous elevational crest for some distance. ... Mendeleyevs portrait by Ilya Repin. ...

The island is formed with the volcanic and crystalline rocks. The climate is of monsoon type. The vegetation mostly consists of spruce, pine, fir, and mixed deciduous forests with lianas and Kuril bamboo underbrush. The mountains are covered with birch and Siberian Dwarf Pine scrub, herbaceous flowers or bare rocks. This article is about volcanoes in geology. ... Crystal (disambiguation) Insulin crystals A crystal is a solid in which the constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a regularly ordered, repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. ... Jump to: navigation, search Our earth is composed of three main types of rock, each having been formed in its own special way. ... Monsoon in the Vindhya, a mountain chain in central India A monsoon is a periodic wind, especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia. ... Vegetation is a general term for the plant life of an area; it refers to the ground cover provided by plants, and is by far the most abundant biotic element of the biosphere. ... Species About 35; see text. ... Jump to: navigation, search Species About 115. ... FIR may stand for: finite impulse response (a property of some digital filters) far infrared, i. ... Jump to: navigation, search Deciduous means temporary or tending to fall off (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off). ... Jump to: navigation, search A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, a wooded area set aside for hunting). ... A liana is a kind of plant. ... Diversity Around 91 genera and 1,000 species Subtribes Arthrostylidiinae Arundinariinae Bambusinae Chusqueinae Guaduinae Melocanninae Nastinae Racemobambodinae Shibataeinae See the full Taxonomy of the Bambuseae. ... Underbrush is a term used to describe the low shrubs and young trees that grow on the floor of a forest. ... Mount McKinley in Alaska has one of the largest visible base-to-summit elevation differences anywhere A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... Jump to: navigation, search Species Many species; see text and classification Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. ... Binomial name Pinus pumila (Pall. ... A herb (pronounced hurb in Commonwealth English and urb in American English) is a plant grown for culinary, medicinal, or in some cases even spiritual value. ... // Flower Anatomy Flowering plants are heterosporangiate (producing two types of reproductive spores) and the pollen (male spores) and ovules (female spores) are produced in different organs, but these are together in a bisporangiate strobilus that is the typical flower. ...

Primary economic activity is fishery and fishing industry. The island has a port next to the village of Yuzhno-Kurilsk, district seat of the South Kurile district and the island's main settlement. Jump to: navigation, search A lobster boat unloading its catch in Ilfracombe harbour, North Devon, England A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic species, an activity known as fishing. ... The Fishing industry is the commercial activity of fishing and producing fish and other seafood products. ... Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 A port is a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them. ... Jump to: navigation, search Yuzhno-Kurilsky (or South Kurile) district is a subdivision of Russias Sakhalin Oblast. ...