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Offshore Islets Of Shikotan
The Offshore islets of Shikotan include several tiny islets and rocks scattered around the coast of Shikotan island, which in turn is a part of Lesser Kuril Chain in Sakhalin Oblast of Russia. The islets are Kuril Islands dispute, claimed by Japan together with Shikotan as parts of the nominal . History In 1855 the islets together with Shikotan were incorporated into Empire of Japan on conditions of Treaty of Shimoda. After World War II the islets have become part of the USSR and then Russia. Though some of them used to have Japanese names, only the lesser part of them were named in Russian, while the major part remained unnamed during the Soviet era. In 2012 one of the islets was named after Sergey Kapitsa, a prominent Russian physicist who recently died in the same year. The Russian Geographical Society made an expedition to the area in 2012 to generate ideas for naming further five islets which were officially given Russian names in 2017. Two of them, Gnechko and Farkhutdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shikotan
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 Sakhalin Oblast. It is claimed by Japan as the titular , organized as part of Nemuro Subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture. The island's primary economic activities are fisheries and fishing, with the principal marine products being cod, crab, and kelp. Names The English name ' transcribes both the Japanese name and the Russian name . The Japanese name derives from the Ainu ''Sikotan'' ( or ). The name combines the Ainu reflexive or embellishing prefix ''si-'' and the word ''kotan'' (" settlement, village"), used metonymically in Ainu for each of the islands of the Kurils. The alternative Russian name ''Shpanberg'' (), sometimes anglicized as ''Spanberg'', honors Martin Spanberg, one of Vitus Bering's lieutenants who led three voyages in 1738, 1739, and 1742 that first initiated Russian diplomatic relations with Japan an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
