Raikoke Island
Raikoke, also spelled Raykoke, is, as of 2019, a Russian uninhabited volcanic island near the centre of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean, 16 kilometres distant from the island of Matua.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Russia
- Also known as: “Raikoke”, “Raikoke-jima”, “Raikoke-shima”, and “Raikoke-tō”
Raikoke Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Raikoke Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Achinese to Ukrainian—“Raikoke Island” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pulo Raikoke”
- Afrikaans: “Raikoke”
- Azerbaijani: “Raykoke adası”
- Basque: “Raikoke”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Райкоке”
- Belarusian: “Райкоке”
- Bulgarian: “Райкоке”
- Catalan: “Raikoke”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Raykoke”
- Chinese: “雷公計島”
- Chinese: “雷公计岛”
- Chinese: “雷科克岛”
- Chinese: “雷科克島”
- Czech: “Raikoke”
- Dutch: “Raikoke”
- French: “Raikoke”
- German: “Raikoke”
- Hebrew: “ראיקוקה”
- Indonesian: “Raikoke”
- Italian: “Rajkoke”
- Japanese: “ライコケ島”
- Japanese: “雷公計島”
- Korean: “라이코케섬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rajkoke”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Raikoke”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rajkoke”
- Norwegian: “Rajkoke”
- Persian: “رایکوکه”
- Polish: “Raikoke”
- Polish: “Rajkokie”
- Russian: “Остров Райкоке”
- Russian: “Райкоке”
- Russian: “Столповой”
- Spanish: “Raikoke”
- Turkish: “Raykoke Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Райкоке”
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