Chirinkotan Island
Chirinkotan 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 "mudslide".
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Island
- …lies at an elevation of 607 metres (1,991 feet)
- …is also known as “Chirinkotan”
- Description: island in Kuril Islands, Russia
Chirinkotan Island
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
48.9806° or 48° 58′ 50″ north
Longitude
153.48685° or 153° 29′ 13″ east
Open location code
8RWMXFJP+6P
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Welsh—“Chirinkotan Island” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pulo Chirinkotan”
- Afrikaans: “Tsjirinkotan”
- Azerbaijani: “Çirinkotan adası”
- Basque: “Chirinkotan”
- Basque: “Txirinkotan”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Чырынкатан”
- Belarusian: “Чырынкатан”
- Catalan: “Chirinkotan”
- Catalan: “Txirinkotan”
- Cebuano: “Chirinkotan-shima”
- Cebuano: “Chirinkotan-tō”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Chirinkotan”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Tirinkotan”
- Cebuano: “Shirinki Island”
- Cebuano: “Tirinkotan Tô”
- Chinese: “奇林古丹岛”
- Chinese: “奇林古丹島”
- Chinese: “奇林科坦岛”
- Chinese: “奇林科坦島”
- Chinese: “知林古丹島”
- Czech: “Čirinkotan”
- Dutch: “Chirinkotan”
- Dutch: “Tsjirinkotan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيرينكوتان”
- Estonian: “Tširinkotan”
- French: “Chirinkotan-to”
- French: “Chirinkotan-tō”
- French: “Chirinkotan”
- French: “Ostrov Tchirinkotan”
- French: “Tchirinkotan”
- French: “Остров Чиринкотан”
- French: “知林古丹島”
- German: “Chirinkotan”
- German: “Tschirinkotan”
- Italian: “Čirinkotan”
- Japanese: “チリンコタン島”
- Japanese: “知林古丹島”
- Korean: “치링코탄섬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjirinkotan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjirinkotan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Чиринкотан”
- Norwegian: “Tsjirinkotan”
- Persian: “چیرینکوتان”
- Polish: “Czirinkotan”
- Polish: “Czyrinkotan”
- Russian: “Девятый”
- Russian: “Лаупсатъ”
- Russian: “остров Девятый”
- Russian: “Чиринкотан (остров)”
- Russian: “Чиринкотан”
- Spanish: “Chirinkotan”
- Turkish: “Çirinkotan Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Чиринкотан”
- Ukrainian: “Чірінкотан”
- Welsh: “Chirinkotan”
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