Black Brothers
Chyornye Bratya is a pair of uninhabited volcanic islands between Simushir and Urup in the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Archipelago
- Description: island group in Kuril Islands, Russia
- Also known as: “Chirihoi” and “Chyornye Bratya”
Black Brothers
- Categories: island group, locality, and landform
- Location: Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.48859° or 46° 29′ 19″ northLongitude
150.86893° or 150° 52′ 8″ eastOpen location code
8RRGFVQ9+CHOpenStreetMap ID
node 1805778886OpenStreetMap feature
place=archipelagoGeoNames ID
2126203Wikidata ID
Q2365389
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Ukrainian—“Black Brothers” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pulo Chirpoy”
- Achinese: “Pulo Chyornie Bratya”
- Afrikaans: “Tsjornije Bratja”
- Asturian: “Islla Chyornye Bratya”
- Azerbaijani: “Çornıye Bratya adaları”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Чорныя Браты”
- Belarusian: “Чорныя Браты”
- Cebuano: “Black Brothers”
- Cebuano: “Chirihoi-jima”
- Cebuano: “Chiruboi-jima”
- Cebuano: “Ostrova Chernye Brat’ya”
- Cebuano: “Ostrova Chernyye Brat’ya”
- Cebuano: “Tirihoi Tô”
- Chinese: “奇尔波伊岛”
- Chinese: “知理保以岛”
- Chinese: “知理保以島”
- Croatian: “Čornyje Bratja”
- Dutch: “Tsjjornie Bratja”
- French: “Chyornye Bratya (îles)”
- French: “Chyornye Bratya”
- Italian: “Čërnye Brat’ja”
- Japanese: “チルポイ島”
- Japanese: “知理保以島”
- Korean: “초르니예브라티야섬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chyornie Bratya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjirpoj”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjornie Bratja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brat Tsjirpojev”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chyornie Bratya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjiornyje Bratja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjirpoj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjornie Bratja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Чёрные Братья”
- Norwegian: “Tsjornie Bratja”
- Persian: “چیورنیه براتیا”
- Russian: “Ostrova Chërnyye Brat’ya”
- Russian: “остров Семнадцатый”
- Russian: “острова Тчирпоя”
- Russian: “Острова Чёрные Братья”
- Russian: “Тчирпой”
- Russian: “Черные Братья”
- Russian: “Чёрные Братья”
- Russian: “Чирпой”
- Slovak: “Čornyje Bratia”
- Turkish: “Çornıye Bratya Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Чорні Брати”
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