Paramushir Island
Paramushir is a volcanic island in the northern portion of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is separated from Shumshu by the very narrow Second Kuril Strait in the northeast 2.5 km, from Antsiferov by the Luzhin Strait to the southwest, from Atlasov in the northwest by 20 km, and from Onekotan in the south by the 40 km wide Fourth Kuril Strait.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Kuril Islands, Russia
- Also known as: “Haramushiru”, “Horomushiro-shima”, “Ostrov Paramusir”, “Paramushir”, “Paramushiro-tō”, “Paramushiru-jima”, “Paramushiru-to”, and “Paramusiru Tō”
Paramushir Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Paramushir Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Achinese to Vietnamese—“Paramushir Island” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pulo Paramushir”
- Afrikaans: “Paramoesjir”
- Arabic: “جزيرة باراموشير”
- Azerbaijani: “Paramuşir”
- Basque: “Paramushir”
- Basque: “Paramuxir”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Парамушыр”
- Belarusian: “Парамушыр”
- Bulgarian: “Парамушир”
- Catalan: “Paramuixir”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Paramushir”
- Chinese: “帕拉穆希尔岛”
- Chinese: “帕拉穆希爾島”
- Chinese: “幌筵岛”
- Chinese: “幌筵島”
- Czech: “Paramušir”
- Dutch: “Paramoesjir”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره باراموشير”
- Esperanto: “Paramuŝir”
- Estonian: “Paramušir”
- Estonian: “Paramuširi saar”
- French: “Paramouchir”
- French: “Paramushir”
- Galician: “Paramushir”
- German: “Paramuschir”
- German: “Paramushiru”
- Greek: “Παραμουσίρ”
- Hebrew: “פרמושיר”
- Indonesian: “Paramushir”
- Italian: “Paramushir”
- Italian: “Paramušir”
- Japanese: “パラムシル島”
- Japanese: “ホロムシロ島”
- Japanese: “幌筵島”
- Japanese: “波羅茂知島”
- Kazakh: “Парамушир”
- Kirghiz: “Парамушир”
- Korean: “파라무시로 섬”
- Korean: “파라무시르섬”
- Korean: “포로무시리 섬”
- Latvian: “Paramušira”
- Lithuanian: “Paramuširas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paramusjir”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paramushiro”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paramusjir”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Парамушир”
- Norwegian: “Paramusjir”
- Ossetian: “Парамушир”
- Persian: “پاراموشیر”
- Polish: “Paramuszyr”
- Portuguese: “Horomushiru”
- Portuguese: “Paramushir”
- Portuguese: “Paramushiru”
- Russian: “Остров Парамушир”
- Russian: “Парамушир”
- Slovak: “Paramušir”
- Spanish: “Isla de Paramushir”
- Spanish: “Paramushir”
- Turkish: “Paramuşir Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Парамушир”
- Vietnamese: “Paramushir”
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