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Iturup
(redirected from Etorofu Island)

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Iturup 

the largest of the Kuril Islands (Sakhalin Oblast, RSFSR). Area, 6, 725 sq km; length, 200 km; width, from 7 to 27 km. Iturup, which is in the southern part of the chain, consists of volcanic massifs and mountain ranges. The island has heights up to 1, 634 m. Its coasts are high and precipitous. Alder shrubs are located in the northeastern part of the island; copses of Kuril larch are in the central part. In the southwest, there are mixed forests with lianas. Thickets of Kuril bamboo grow in the underbrush. Erman’s birch and Japanese stone pines are found in the upper mountain belt. The city of Kuril’sk is located on Iturup.
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63) From 20 to 23 November, the ships of the Kido Butai slipped into Hitokappu Wan, an isolated bay at Etorofu Island, in the southern Kuriles.
Japanese radio denial and deception and the attack on Pearl Harbor by Hanyok, Robert J. / Naval War College Review
24am GMT) about 310 miles east of the Etorofu islands between northern Japan and Russia, the meteorological agency said.
Quake terror by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
According to the sources, Masahide Iino, 44, head of a Mitsui industry project team, had interfered with the bidding process for a government-funded power project on Etorofu Island in March 1999 before the bidding for the project on Kunashiri Island.
Mitsui employee allegedly interfered in another bid by Japan Weekly Monitor
 
 
 
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