Kharimkotan
Harimkotan (; ; alternatively , ) is an uninhabited volcanic island located from Onekotan near the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language, from 'village of many Cardiocrinum.'
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Harimkotan
- Islands.native_name
- Харимкотан 春牟古丹島
- Islands.image_name
- Kharimkotan - ISS005.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- Astronaut photograph of Harimkotan Island from International Space Station
- Islands.area_km2
- 68
- Islands.location
- Sea of Okhotsk
- Islands.pushpin_map
- Russia Sakhalin Oblast
- Islands.pushpin_map_relief
- 1
- Islands.map_image
- Kuriles Kharimkotan.PNG
- Islands.archipelago
- Kuril Islands
- Islands.country
- Russia
- Islands.highest_mount
- Pik Severgin
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Harimkotan (; ; alternatively , ) is an uninhabited volcanic island located from Onekotan near the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language, from 'village of many Cardiocrinum.'
thumb|Topographic map of Onekotan with Harimkotan