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Urup
Urup (; , ) is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Kuril Islands chain in the south of the Sea of Okhotsk, northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language word ''urup'', meaning "sockeye salmon". Geography and climate Urup is essentially rectangular in shape, with a long axis of 120 kilometers (75 miles) and a narrow axis of about 20 kilometers (12 miles). It is the fourth largest of the Kuril Islands, with an area of . The highest point is Gora Ivao at . A number of tiny islets and rocks are scattered around the coast of Urup. The strait between Urup and Iturup is known as the Vries Strait, after Dutch explorer Maarten Gerritsz Vries, the first recorded European to explore the area. The strait between Urup and Simushir is known as Bussol Strait, after the French word for "compass", which was the name of one of French naval officer La Pérouse's vessels. This French mariner explored the area of the Kuril Islands in 1787. Urup consists of four m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuril Islands
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East. The islands stretch approximately northeast from Hokkaido in Japan to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the north Pacific Ocean. There are 56 islands and many minor islets. The Kuril Islands consist of the Greater Kuril Chain and, at the southwest end, the parallel Lesser Kuril Chain. The group termed the 'South Kurils' consists of those of the Lesser Kuril Chain together with Kunashir and Iturup in the Greater Kuril Chain. The Vries Strait between Iturup and Urup forms the Miyabe Line dividing the North and South Kurils. The Kuril Islands cover an area of around , with a population of roughly 20,000. The islands have been under Russian administration since their Invasion of the Kuril Islands, 1945 invasion by the Soviet Union near the end of World War II. Japan claims the four southernmost islands, including two of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Offshore Islets Of Urup
The Offshore islets of Urup include several tiny islets and rocks scattered around the coast of Urup island, which in turn is a part of Greater Kuril Chain in Sakhalin Oblast of Russia. History In 1855 the islets together with Urup were confirmed as part of Russian Empire on conditions of Treaty of Shimoda. In 1875 they were incorporated into Empire of Japan on conditions of Treaty of Saint Petersburg. After World War II the islets have become part of the USSR and then Russia. Many of them remained unnamed during the Soviet era, though previously they used to have Japanese names. Russian Geographical Society made 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, Gromyko and Schetininoy, are part of Urup's islets. In 2020 another one of Urup's islets was officially named after Aleksandr Vasilevsky who was Marshal of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union (, ) was the seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bussol Strait
The Bussol Strait (Russian: ''Proliv Bussol''), known in Japan as the , is a wide strait that separates the islands of Broutona and Chirpoy to the west from Simushir to the east. It is nearly 58 km (about 36 mi) wide, making it the largest channel in the Kuril Islands.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). ''Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia''. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia. It is named after the frigate '' Boussole''. History The strait was a popular route in the 1840s for American whaleships entering and exiting the Sea of Okhotsk on their way to and from cruises for right whales. It was rarely used from the 1850s to the 1870s when ships primarily cruised to the north for bowhead whales, using the more convenient Fourth Kuril Strait further north instead. Among the few to use it during that period was the ship ''Susan'' (349 tons), of Nantucket, which was stove by ice and sank in the strait on the night of 27–28 April 1853 whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudakov
Rudakov () is a stratovolcano located in the central part of Urup Island, Kuril Islands, Russia. The volcano has a wide crater which contains a wide crater lake. See also * List of volcanoes in Russia This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Russia. European Russia Kamchatka Volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and the Russian Far East. Kuril Islands Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands, in the ... References * Urup Stratovolcanoes of Russia Volcanic crater lakes Holocene stratovolcanoes Holocene Asia Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands {{SakhalinOblast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gora Ivao
Ivao Group () is a group of cinder cones located in the southern part of the uninhabited, volcanic Urup Island, in the Kuril Archipelago, Russia. See also * List of volcanoes in Russia This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Russia. European Russia Kamchatka Volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and the Russian Far East. Kuril Islands Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands, in the ... References * Urup Cinder cones Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands Holocene volcanoes Holocene Asia {{SakhalinOblast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iturup
Iturup (; ), also historically known by #Names, other names, is an island in the Kuril Archipelago separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. The town of Kurilsk, administrative center of Kurilsky District, is located roughly midway along its western shore. Iturup is the largest and northernmost of the southern Kurils, Kuril Islands dispute, ownership of which is disputed between Japan and Russia. It is located between Kunashiri to its southwest and Urup to its northeast. The Vries Strait between Iturup and Urup forms the Miyabe Line dividing the predominant plants of the Kurils. The native inhabitants of the islands since at least the 14th century were the Ainu people, Ainu. Various Age of Exploration, European explorers passed the area over the years but settlement varied between Russian and Japanese. The island was formally claimed as Japanese territory in 1855. Near the end of the Second World War in 1945, the Soviet Union occupied the southern Kurils and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivao Group
Ivao Group () is a group of cinder cones located in the southern part of the uninhabited, volcanic Urup Island, in the Kuril Archipelago, Russia. See also * List of volcanoes in Russia This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Russia. European Russia Kamchatka Volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and the Russian Far East. Kuril Islands Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands, in the ... References * Urup Cinder cones Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands Holocene volcanoes Holocene Asia {{SakhalinOblast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tri Sestry
Tri Sestry () is a stratovolcano located in the central part of Urup Island, Kuril Islands, Russia. See also * List of volcanoes in Russia This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Russia. European Russia Kamchatka Volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and the Russian Far East. Kuril Islands Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands, in the ... References * Urup Mountains of the Kuril Islands Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands Stratovolcanoes of Russia Holocene stratovolcanoes Holocene Asia {{SakhalinOblast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolokol Group
Kolokol Group () is a group of somma volcanoes located in the central part of Urup Island, Kuril Islands, Russia. The group is named after its highest volcano but also includes volcanoes called Berg, Trezubetz (which erupted in 1924) and Borzov. The most active in the group is Berg, while Borzov is the oldest. See also * List of volcanoes in Russia This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Russia. European Russia Kamchatka Volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and the Russian Far East. Kuril Islands Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands, in the ... References * Urup Active volcanoes Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands {{SakhalinOblast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vries Strait
Vries Strait (, ''Proliv Friza''), historically also known as the De Vries Strait, is a strait between two main islands of the Kurils. It is located between the northeastern end of the island of Iturup and the southwestern headland of Urup Island, connecting the Sea of Okhotsk on the west with the Pacific Ocean on the east. It has a width of 42 km. Name The Dutch sailor Maarten Gerritszoon Vries explored the seas north of Japan for the Dutch East India Company in 1643. Sometimes credited with making the first European contact with Urup and Iturup, he actually recorded exaggerated nonsense or phantom islands, claiming the region held the enormous continental Company Landnamed after the VOCand the large and prosperous Staten Island, named after the States General. "Vries Strait" was the imaginary body of water that separated these imaginary places. However, they both survived on European maps of the region for well over a century, even after Vitus Bering's lieutenant Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maarten Gerritsz Vries
Maarten Gerritszoon Vries or Fries, also referred to as de Vries, (18 February 1589 in Harlingen, Netherlands – late 1647 at sea near Manila) was a 17th-century Dutch cartographer and explorer, the first Western Europe to leave an account of his visit to Ezo, Sakhalin, Kuril Islands and the Sea of Okhotsk. Not much is known about the life of de Vries. He was probably born in Harlingen, Netherlands, in 1589 and spent many years in Taiwan. He is best remembered for his 1643 expedition to the north-western Pacific Ocean to discover the coast of Tartaria, on account of Anthony van Diemen, the governor in Batavia. This was the second expedition to look for legendary gold and silver islands in the Pacific, which nobody had discovered, after a failed expedition in 1639 under command of Matthijs Quast. De Vries expedition The two ships, the '' Castricum'' under De Vries and the ''Breskens'' under Hendrick Cornelisz Schaep left Batavia, the capital of Dutch Java, in February 164 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
