Ekarma
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Ekarma (; Japanese 越渇磨島; Ekaruma-tō) is an uninhabited volcanic island near the center of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean, separated from Shiashkotan Island by the Ekarma Strait. Its name is derived from the Ainu language, from “safe anchorage”.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Ekarma
- Islands.native_name
- Экарма 越渇磨島
- Islands.image_name
- Ekarma - Landsat 7.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- NASA Landsat view of Ekarma Island
- Islands.area_km2
- 30
- Islands.location
- Sea of Okhotsk
- Islands.archipelago
- Kuril Islands
- Islands.highest_mount
- Pik Ekarma
- Islands.elevation_m
- 1170
- Islands.population
- 0
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Severo-Kurilsky District
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 30
- Elevation
- 1170
- Time zone
- UTC+12:00
- Body of water
- Sea of Okhotsk
- Image
- Ekarma - Landsat 7.jpg
- Width
- 5
- Length
- 7.5
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- Commons category
- Ekarma
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- name in kana
- えかるまとう
- located in/on physical feature
- Kuril Islands
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Geology
- History
- See also
- References
- External links
- Further reading
- Notes
Ekarma (; Japanese 越渇磨島; Ekaruma-tō) is an uninhabited volcanic island near the center of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean, separated from Shiashkotan Island by the Ekarma Strait. Its name is derived from the Ainu language, from “safe anchorage”.
thumb|Topographic map of Shiashkotan and nearby islands including Ekarma
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ekarma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations