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Paramushir

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Paramushir 

an island in the northern part of the Greater Kuril Chain, in Sakhalin Oblast, RSFSR. It is separated from neighboring islands by the straits of Alaid, Luzhina, and the Second and Fourth Kurils. It has an area of 2,042 sq km and is 100 km long and about 20 km wide. The Vernadskii and Karpinskii mountain ranges consist of volcanic chains of which the following are active: Ebeko, Chikurachki (1,816 m), Fussa, and Karpinskii. The mountain slopes are covered with a Krummholz of cedar and alder and a heath of Ledum and alder bushes. There are sea meadows on the coastal terraces and high-altitude grasses in the valleys. The city of Severo-Kuril’sk is located on the northeastern part of the island.
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Distribution and migrations of the rock sole, Lepidopsetta bilineata bilineata, in the region of the Okhotsk Sea coast of Paramushir and Shumshu Islands.
Evidence of the selection of tidal streams by northern rock sole ... by Nichol, Daniel G.; Somerton, David A. / Fishery Bulletin
This austere city with a beautiful backdrop of its snow-capped volcano in the distance illustrates the immense contrast of the environment which also supports a large seaport (well protected from all storms and even from a dreaded tsunami tidal-wave such as the tidal-wave of 1952, which destroyed the town of Severo-Kurilsk on the island of Paramushir, 100 miles from Kamchatka).
Rendezvous with Kamchatka by Slattery, Derek M. / PSA Journal
According to Voice of Russia, Russian authorities also plan to build an airport on Paramushir, the northernmost island in the Kurils.
Russia to build airport on Etorofu: Russian radio by Asian Economic News
 
 
 
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