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ISLAND

KUNASHIR

Kunashir Island is the southernmost island of the Great Kuril Islands. Translated from the Ainu language, it means "Black Island". It received this name because of its natural features: its territory is covered with dark coniferous forests.
The total area of the island - 1490 square kilometers, a length of 123 km, width in the narrowest place of 7 km, width in the widest - 30 km. Neighbors of Kunashir are the Japanese island of Hokkaido and Russia's Iturup.
There are a huge number of attractions on Kunashir, the most amazing of which are Pillar Cape, Mendeleev Volcano, Golovnin Volcano Caldera and Tetya Volcano. In 1984, in order to preserve the unique natural heritage on the territory of Kunashir, the State Nature Reserve "Kurilskiy" was created.

KUNASHIR Island

WHAT TO SEE ON KUNASHIR ISLAND

MENDELEEV VOLCANO

A fumarole is a source of glowing gases and vapor located in the craters, on the slopes, and at the foot of volcanoes. The release of volcanic gases through fumaroles is evidence of a volcano's transition to an intermediate stage between eruptions or its complete extinction. Hike to Mendeleev volcano - for tourists who are fond of nature, true naturalists.

GOLOVNIN VOLCANO. LAKES BOILING AND HOT

Golovnin volcano, the southernmost volcano in the Kuril Islands, is a very popular route on Kunashir, so there are ruts, even accessible by ATV, to the border of the reserve.There are two lakes in the caldera: Hot and Boiling. In the more expansive Goryachy, the water is actually cold. The lake is almost fresh and small fish live at the mouths of streams.Boiling Lake is quite a different matter! His metallic-gray water has a constant temperature of 36-38 degrees. It is prohibited to swim there, because there are many hot springs, fumaroles, and mud pots at the bottom of the lake, and it is easy to get into a 100-degree water jet.

HUNDRED BEACH

There is a real wonder of the world on Kunashir - Pillar Cape. Cape Stolobchatny is the result of the Mendeleev volcano eruption. The whole rock consists of hexahedral and pentahedral absolutely regular columns, the height of which reaches 50 meters in some places.cape Stolbchatny entered into the UNESCO register, as a monument of world significance. Every true traveler should visit this place.

VULCAN FATHER

Two-cone volcano Tyatya has not lost its activity for more than 12 thousand years. In the Ainu language the volcano's name sounds like "Chacha-Nupuri," which literally means "father mountain. After the Japanese distorted the Ainu name the volcano began to be called Tetya (from Japanese tetya-dake). The height of the volcano, which was 1819 meters before the last eruption in 1977, which resulted in partial destruction of 30-50 meters of the upper edge, has not yet been reliably determined. Only well-prepared participants are able to ascend Tyatya volcano. In addition, the sea crossing to the volcano is possible only in good weather.