Matua Island
Matua is an uninhabited volcanic island near the center of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean, 16 km across Golovnin Strait from Raikoke. Its name is derived from the Ainu language, from “hellmouth”.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Russia
- Also known as: “Matau Island”, “Matsua-jima”, “Matsuwa”, “Matsuwa Island”, “Matsuwa-jima”, “Matsuwa-tō”, “Matua”, “Matuwa Tô”, “Ostrov Matsuva”, and “Ushichi Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sarychev Peak.
Sarychev Peak
Volcano
Photo: Eliezg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sarychev Peak is an active stratovolcano covering almost the entirety of Matua Island in the Kuril Islands, Russia. It is a young, highly symmetrical stratovolcanic cone. The height of the plume during the 2009 eruption was estimated at 12 to 18 kilometres.
Matua Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Matua Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Achinese to Ukrainian—“Matua Island” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pulo Matua”
- Afrikaans: “Matoea”
- Azerbaijani: “Matua adası”
- Basque: “Matua”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Матуа”
- Belarusian: “Матуа”
- Bulgarian: “Матуа”
- Catalan: “ostrov Matua”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Matua”
- Chinese: “松轮岛”
- Chinese: “松輪島”
- Chinese: “馬圖阿島”
- Chinese: “马图阿岛”
- Czech: “Matua”
- Dutch: “Matoea”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماتوا”
- French: “Matoua”
- German: “Matsua”
- German: “Matsuwa”
- German: “Matua”
- Hebrew: “מאטואה”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Matua”
- Italian: “Isola di Matua”
- Italian: “Matua”
- Japanese: “サリチェフ山”
- Japanese: “マツワ島”
- Japanese: “マトゥア島”
- Japanese: “松輪島”
- Kazakh: “Matwa”
- Kazakh: “Матуа”
- Kazakh: “ماتۋا”
- Korean: “마투아섬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Matua”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Matsuwa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Matua”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Матуа”
- Norwegian: “Matua”
- Persian: “جزیره ماتوآ”
- Polish: “Matua”
- Russian: “Матуа”
- Russian: “Мацуа”
- Russian: “Остров Матуа”
- Russian: “Уригикай”
- Spanish: “Matua”
- Turkish: “Matua Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Матуа”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Gubanovka and Sarychevo.
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