Anuchina
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Native name: Анучина Akiyuri | |
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North Pacific | |
| Coordinates | 43°21′59.1″N 146°0′21″E / 43.366417°N 146.00583°E |
| Archipelago | Kuril Islands |
| Area | 5 km2 (1.9 sq mi) |
| Administration | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 0 (2010) |
| Ethnic groups | Ainu, Japanese (formerly) |
Anuchina (Russian: Анучина, Japanese: 秋勇留島, romanized: Akiyuri-to, Ainu: アキ・ユリ, romanized: Aki-Yuri) is an uninhabited island in the Habomai Islands sub-group of the Kuril Islands chain in the south of the Sea of Okhotsk, northwest Pacific Ocean. Named after Dmitry Anuchin, Russian anthropologist, ethnographist and archaeologist. Island's Japanese name is derived from the Ainu language.
History
Anuchina was originally uninhabited. In 1799, under the
During the
The offshore islets of Kuril islands mostly remained unnamed during the Soviet era. The Russian Geographical Society made an expedition to the area in 2012 to generate ideas for naming further five islets which were officially given Russian names in 2017. One of them, Derevyanko,[2] is part of Anuchina's offshore islets.[3][4]
See also
Notes
- ^ "Kuril islands dispute between Russia and Japan". BBC News. 29 April 2013. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
- ^ it was named after Kuzma Derevyanko, a Soviet representative, who officially accepted the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945 aboard the USS Missouri
- ^ "Пять безымянных курильских островов получили названия" [Five unnamed Kuril Islands have been named] (in Russian). 14 February 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
- ^ "Japan protests Russia's naming of 5 islands on the Kuril chain". 15 February 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
Further reading
- Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich, and James Greive. The History of Kamtschatka and the Kurilski Islands, with the Countries Adjacent. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1963.
- Rees, David. The Soviet Seizure of the Kuriles. New York: Praeger, 1985. ISBN 0-03-002552-4
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