Kharimkotan Island
Harimkotan is an uninhabited volcanic island located 15 km 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.'…
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Kuril Islands, Russia
- Also known as: “Harimkotan”, “Harimkotani saar”, “Harimukotan”, “Harimukotan-jima”, “Harumukotan-jima”, “Harumukotan-tō”, “Kaarenkotan”, “Kharimkotan”, “Ostrov Kharumukotan”, “ハリムコタン島”, “哈里姆科坦岛”, “哈里姆科坦島”, and “春牟古丹岛”
- Historically known as: “Kharim-Kotan”
Kharimkotan Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.12° or 49° 7′ 12″ north
Longitude
154.53083° or 154° 31′ 51″ east
Elevation
534 metres (1,752 feet)
Open location code
8RXP4GCJ+28
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Turkish—“Kharimkotan Island” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pulo Kharimkotan”
- Afrikaans: “Charimkotan”
- Azerbaijani: “Xarimkotan”
- Basque: “Kharimkotan”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Харымкатан”
- Belarusian: “Харымкатан”
- Catalan: “Kharimkotan”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Kharimkotan”
- Chinese: “春牟古丹島”
- Czech: “Charimkotan”
- Dutch: “Charimkotan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خاريمكوتان”
- Estonian: “Harimkotan”
- French: “Kharimkotan”
- German: “Charimkotan”
- Italian: “Charimkotan”
- Japanese: “春牟古丹島”
- Korean: “하림코탄섬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kharimkotan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kharimkotan”
- Norwegian: “Kharimkotan”
- Persian: “خاریمکوتان”
- Russian: “Харимкотан”
- Spanish: “Jarimkotan”
- Turkish: “Harimkotan Adası”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Severgino and Onekotan.
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