Chirinkotan

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Chirinkotan is a small, uninhabited volcanic island in the Kuril Islands chain of the northwest Pacific Ocean.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Chirinkotan canonical 1
Simushir Island 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf stratovolcano
uninhabited island
volcanic island
access only by boat
administrativeTerritory Sakhalin Oblast
archipelago Kuril Islands
calderaDiameter about 1 km
country Russia
eruptionStyle Strombolian
Vulcanian
explosive
hasBeaches narrow beaches
hasCaldera yes
hasCliffs steep coastal cliffs
hasCraterLake no permanent crater lake
hasHazard ash clouds affecting aviation
ash emissions
lava flows
pyroclastic flows
volcanic bombs
hasHumanSettlement none
hasLavaFlows yes
hasMarineWildlife marine mammals nearby
seabird colonies
hasPyroclasticDeposits yes
hasSummitElevation 2375 ft
724 m
hasVegetation sparse
islandDiameter about 3 km
isPartOf Kuril Islands
surface form: Greater Kuril Chain
isUninhabited true
lastEruptionsCentury 20th century
21st century
locatedBetween Ekarma
Rashua
locatedIn Kuril Islands
Sea of Okhotsk
surface form: Sea of Okhotsk region

northwest Pacific Ocean
monitoredBy KVERT
KVERT
surface form: Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruption Response Team
nearbyWaterBody Pacific Ocean
Sea of Okhotsk
sovereignState Russia
surface form: Russian Federation
tectonicSetting Kuril–Kamchatka subduction system
surface form: Kuril–Kamchatka subduction zone
volcanicArc Kuril–Kamchatka volcanic arc
surface form: Kuril Island Arc
volcanoType stratovolcano

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kuril Islands hasMajorIsland Chirinkotan
Zavaritsky Caldera locatedOn Chirinkotan
this entity surface form: Simushir Island