Ekarma Island
Ekarma is an uninhabited volcanic island near the center of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean, separated from Shiashkotan Island by the Ekarma Strait. Its name is derived from the Ainu language, from “safe anchorage”.
Photo: Davepape, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Russia
- Also known as: “Ekarma”, “Ekaruma”, “Ekaruma-dake”, “Ekaruma-jima”, “Ekaruma-shima”, “Ekaruma-tō”, “Erkama saar”, “Ostrov Ekaruma”, “Pik Ekarma”, “Yekaruma To”, “Влк.Экарма”, “Зкарма”, “Нериво”, “Экарма (остров)”, “Экарума”, “エカルマ島”, “埃卡尔马岛”, “埃卡爾馬島”, and “越渇磨岳”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ekarma.
Ekarma Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.94403° or 48° 56′ 39″ north
Longitude
153.95757° or 153° 57′ 27″ east
Elevation
559 metres (1,834 feet)
Open location code
8RWMWXV5+J2
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Satellite Map
Discover Ekarma Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Achinese to Turkish—“Ekarma Island” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pulo Ekarma”
- Afrikaans: “Ekarma”
- Arabic: “جزيرة إيكارما”
- Azerbaijani: “Ekarma adası”
- Basque: “Ekarma”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Экарма”
- Belarusian: “Экарма”
- Bulgarian: “Екарма”
- Catalan: “Ekarma”
- Catalan: “ostrov Ekarma”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Ekarma”
- Chinese: “越渇磨島”
- Chinese: “越渴磨岛”
- Chinese: “越渴磨島”
- Croatian: “Ekarma”
- Czech: “Ekarma”
- Danish: “Ekarma”
- Dutch: “Ekarma”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايكارما”
- Estonian: “Ekarma saar”
- Estonian: “Ekarma”
- French: “Ekarma”
- German: “Ekarma”
- Italian: “Ėkarma”
- Japanese: “越渇磨島”
- Korean: “예카르마섬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ekarma”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ekarma”
- Norwegian: “Ekarma”
- Persian: “جزیره اکارما”
- Polish: “Ekarma”
- Russian: “Остров Экарма”
- Russian: “Экарма”
- Spanish: “Ekarma”
- Turkish: “Ekarma Adası”
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