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- There are 56 islands and many minor islets. The Kuril Islands consist of the Greater Kuril Chain and, at the southwest end, the parallel Lesser Kuril Chain.[2]...
- The islands are divided into three groups; Northern, Central, and Southern Kuril Islands, with deep straits of up to 2,000 meters separating the island groups.
- ...along routes commonly used for international navigation and that, in the vicinity of the Kuril Islands, the only route is that through the fourth Kuril strait.
- There are a lot of birds here. The central village of Kunashira - Yuzhno-Kurilsk - is located on the coast of the South Kuril Strait.
- ...峡, Shumushu Strait) (also known as just Kuril Strait) is a strait, located at 50°50′08″N 156°35′05″E / 50.8355556°N 156.5847222°E / 50.8355556...
- Kurile Islands (Kuril, Chishima-Rettō) Sakhalin Oblast Russia. ... At the northeast end is the Kuril Strait (Kurilsky Strait) and beyond Kamchatka.
- Updated tide times and tide charts for Kuril Strait as well as high tide and low tide heights, weather forecasts and surf reports for the week.
- In some places, such as the Second Kuril Strait, the depth is only 10 m. The straits are marked by strong tidal currents with a velocity of 2 to 12 km per hour.
- The islands form two parallel ridges: the Greater Kuril and the Lesser Kuril. The Greater Ridge is in turn traditionally divided by Kruzenshterin and Bussol Straits...
