Atlasov Island

island in Russia

Atlasov Island (Russian: Остров Атласова, Japanese: 阿頼度島,) is the northernmost island and volcano and also the highest volcano of the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia.

Understand

The island has an area of 119 m², and is uninhabited.

It is essentially the cone of the submarine volcano Vulkan Alaid protruding above the Sea of Okhotsk to a height of 2,285 metres.

Get in

By plane

By boat

You can get to the island from Severo-Kurilsk by boat. The path is approximately 45 km.

Get around

See

  • 🌍 Alaid. The base of the volcano is Atlas Island 
  • 🌍 Taketomi. The base of the volcano is the peninsula of Vladimir 
  • 🌍 Atlasov Lighthouse (city park). 

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