Ekarma
Native name: Экарма | |
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Geography | |
Location | Sea of Okhotsk |
Coordinates | 48°57′29″N 153°55′48″E / 48.958°N 153.93°E |
Archipelago | Kuril Islands |
Area | 30 km2 (12 sq mi) |
Highest elevation | 1,170 m (3840 ft) |
Highest point | Pik Ekarma |
Administration | |
Demographics | |
Population | 0 |
Ekarma (Russian: Экарма; Japanese
Geology[edit]
Ekarma is roughly oval, measuring 7.4 kilometres (4.6 mi) by 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) with an area of 30 square kilometres (12 sq mi).[1]
The island consists of two overlapping stratovolcano, collectively called Pik Ekarma -(Russian: влк.Экарма; Japanese
History[edit]
Ekarma was visited by hunting and fishing parties of Ainu at the time of European contact, but was not permanently settled as it has no sources of fresh water aside from rainfall. The island appears on an official map showing the territories of Matsumae Domain, a feudal domain of Edo period Japan dated 1644, and these holdings were officially confirmed by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1744. Subsequently, claimed by the Empire of Russia, sovereignty initially passed to Russia under the terms of the Treaty of Shimoda, but was returned to the Empire of Japan per the Treaty of Saint Petersburg along with the rest of the Kuril islands. The island was formerly administered as part of Shimushu District of Nemuro Subprefecture of Hokkaidō. In 1893, a settlement was attempted by nine members of the Chishima Protective Society led by Gunji Shigetada; however, the colony failed when five of the nine members died in an accident while fishing. After World War II, the island came under the control of the Soviet Union, and is now administered as part of the Sakhalin Oblast of the Russian Federation.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- "Ekarma". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
External links[edit]
- Oceandots: Ekarma at the Wayback Machine (archived December 23, 2010)
Further reading[edit]
- Gorshkov, G. S. Volcanism and the Upper Mantle Investigations in the Kurile Island Arc. Monographs in geoscience. New York: Plenum Press, 1970. ISBN 0-306-30407-4
- 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
- Takahashi, Hideki, and Masahiro Ōhara. Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin. Bulletin of the Hokkaido University Museum, no. 2-. Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido University Museum, 2004.
Notes[edit]
- ^ "International Kuril Island Project(IKIP)". University of Washington Fish Collection or the respective authors. Archived from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 2010-05-23.