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The Kuril Islands are a chain of volcanic islands that stretch from the Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) to the Japanese island of Hokkaidō. They separate the Sea of Okhotsk from the Pacific Ocean.
- Categories: Environmental Issues, Politics
- Location: Sakhalin Region, Russia
- Event date: 16.04.2010
- Date published: 16.04.2010
- Author: Alexander Liskin
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: 92-3584, 35 mm slide
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