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First Kuril Strait (, ) (also known as just Kuril Strait) is a strait, located at , separating the
Shumshu Shumshu (; ; ) is the easternmost and second-northernmost island of the Kuril Islands chain, which divides the Sea of Okhotsk from the northwest Pacific Ocean. The name of the island is derived from the Ainu language, meaning "good island". It i ...
Island of the
Kuril Islands The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East. The islands stretch approximately northeast from Hokkaido in Japan to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, separating the ...
from the
Cape Lopatka Cape Lopatka ( ') is the southernmost point of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, with the rural locality of Semenovka at its southernmost point. Cape Lopatka lies about north of Shumshu, the northernmost island of the Kuril Islands. Cape Lopatka ...
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Kamchatka Peninsula The Kamchatka Peninsula (, ) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about . The Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk make up the peninsula's eastern and western coastlines, respectively. Immediately offshore along the Pacific ...
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Second Kuril Strait Second Kuril Strait () is a strait located at , which separates the islands of Paramushir and Shumshu in the Kuril Islands, Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of cou ...
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Fourth Kuril Strait The Fourth Kuril Strait () is a very deep strait separating the islands of Onekotan and Paramushir in the Kuril Islands, Russia. It is 46.7 km (about 29 mi) wide. It was formerly known as the Amphitrite Strait. The flood tidal current in the strait ...
Straits of the Kuril Islands Shumshu Bodies of water of the Kamchatka Peninsula {{SakhalinOblast-geo-stub