Ketoy Island
Ketoy or Ketoi is an uninhabited volcanic island located in the centre of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language for "skeleton" or "bad".
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Kuril Islands, Russia
- Also known as: “Ketoe-jima”, “Ketoi Island”, “Ketoi Jima”, “Ketoi-shima”, “Ketoi-tō”, “Ketoy”, “Ostrov Ketoi”, “Кэтои”, “Сюшевыполитъ”, “ケトイ島”, and “克托伊岛”
Ketoy Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.33583° or 47° 20′ 9″ north
Longitude
152.47583° or 152° 28′ 33″ east
Elevation
754 metres (2,474 feet)
Open location code
8RVJ8FPG+88
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Turkish—“Ketoy Island” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pulo Ketoy”
- Afrikaans: “Ketoi”
- Asturian: “Islla Ketoy”
- Azerbaijani: “Ketoy adası”
- Basque: “Ketoi”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Кетой”
- Belarusian: “Кетой”
- Catalan: “Ketoi”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Ketoy”
- Chinese: “計吐夷島”
- Czech: “Ketoj”
- Dutch: “Ketoy”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيتوى”
- French: “Ketoï”
- German: “Ketoi”
- Italian: “Ketoj”
- Japanese: “計吐夷島”
- Korean: “케토이섬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ketoj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ketoj”
- Norwegian: “Ketoj”
- Persian: “جزیره کتوی”
- Russian: “Кетой”
- Slovak: “Ketoj”
- Spanish: “Ketoy”
- Turkish: “Ketoy Adası”
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