Anziferow Island

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Anziferowa
Anziferow Island (Landsat 7 image)
Anziferow Island ( Landsat 7 image)
Waters Pacific Ocean
Archipelago Kuril Islands
Geographical location 50 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 154 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 154 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  E
Anziferov Island (Sakhalin Oblast)
Anziferow Island
surface 7 km²
Highest elevation Schirinki
761  m
Residents uninhabited

The Anziferow Island , also Schirinki ( Russian остров Анциферова / ostrow Anziferowa, Japanese 志 林 規 島 , Shirinki -tō ) is a volcanic island belonging to Russia in the northern Kuril group .

The area of ​​the island is about 7  km² . It is approximately circular with a diameter of 3 km.

The island was named after the Russian Cossack Danila Jakowlewitsch Anziferow (* unknown, † 1712), who was ataman on Kamchatka from 1711 after the death of Vladimir Atlasov . He belonged to the first group of Russians on the islands of Paramushir and Shumshu and provided the first description of the islands. He was killed by the Itelmen .

Anziferow Island is located southwest of Paramushir , from which it is separated by the 15 km wide Third Kuril or Luzhin Strait . Luschin Street is named after the Russian geodesist and cartographer Fjodor Luschin (* unknown, † 1727). Luschin mapped Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands in 1719–1721, was active in Eastern Siberia from 1723–1724 and participated in Vitus Bering's First Kamchatka Expedition from 1725–1727 .

The island represents the 761  m high part of the extinct volcano Shirinki ( Ширинки ), which rises above sea level .

Anziferow is uninhabited. Administratively, the island belongs to Rajon Severo-Kurilsk ( Nordkurilen , administrative center of Severo-Kurilsk on Paramushir).

fauna

At the southern end of the island is one of five breeding grounds for Steller's sea lions on the Kuril Islands with around 600 animals. Fulmars , yellow-headed lobsters , rissa and thick-billed mum live there as well .

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