Shikotan (色丹島) (Shikotan in Japanese, Шикотан in Russian), one of the bigger islands of the Kuril Islands, located in the Sakhalin Oblast of Russia. Although this island is a part of Russia, Japan maintains a claim to it along with the other three islands (see Kuril Island conflict). 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. ...

The total land area of Shikotan is 182 sq km. 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. ...

The shores of the island are very indented and covered with oceanic meadows. The highest altitude is 412 m. The island is formed with the volcanic rock and sandstone of Upper Cretaceous and Cenozoic periods. A meadow is a tract of grassland, either in its natural state or used as pasture or for growing hay. ... Altitude is the elevation of an object from a known level or datum, called zero level. ... Ignimbrite is a deposit of a pyroclastic flow. ... Jump to: navigation, search Red Sandstone in Wyoming Sandstone near Stadtroda, Germany Sandstone is an sedimentary rock composed mainly of feldspar and quartz and varies in colour (in a similar way to sand), through grey, yellow, red, and white. ... The Cretaceous period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic period (about 146 MYA) to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch of the Tertiary period (65. ... The Cenozoic Era (sometimes still Caenozoic in the United Kingdom) is the most recent of the four Categories: Cenozoic ...

Vegetation mostly consists of Sakhalin fir, larch, deciduous trees, bamboo underbrush, juniper brushwood. 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. ... FIR may stand for: finite impulse response (a property of some digital filters) far infrared, i. ... Species About 12; see text Larches are conifers in the genus Larix, in the family Pinaceae. ... Jump to: navigation, search Deciduous means temporary or tending to fall off (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off). ... 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. ... Species 50-55 species; see text. ...

Settlements - Malokurilskoye and Krabozavodskoye. A reference to colonization, or the resulting communities. ...

Primary economic activity is fishery and sea hunting. 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. ...

See also

• Shikotan District, Hokkaido

Shikotan (色丹郡, -gun) is a district located on Shikotan Island claimed by Japan as part of Nemuro Subprefecture, Hokkaido (see Kuril Island conflict). ...

External links

• Russian emigrants tread water off Japanese bay - Russian inhabitants of Kuril Islands
• Kuril Island Network - A volunteer group dedicated to raising awareness of the habitat on the Kurils