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Ara Sima
Ara Sima (Ara Shima, Ostrov Rogachëva, 荒島) is a small uninhabited islet 350 m off the southeast coast of Kunashir, Kuril Islands, Russia; a 56 m high grassy rock hosting a rhinoceros auklet colony of 17,000–30,000 pairs.
Karaginsky Island
Ostrov Karaginskiy, also known as Karaginsky Island, is an uninhabited island in the Karaginsky Gulf of the western Bering Sea off northeastern Kamchatka, from which the Litke Strait separates it.
Ostrov Bol’shoy Shantar
Bolshoy Shantar (Большой Шантар) is the largest island of the Shantar archipelago in the western Sea of Okhotsk, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia; about 1,790 km², with brackish Lake Bolshoe, Yakshina Bay meteorological station, and inclusion in Shantar Islands National Park since 2013.
Urup
Urup (Uruppu, 得撫島) is the fourth largest island of the Greater Kuril Ridge in the southern Kuril chain, Sea of Okhotsk; volcanic, 1,450 sq km, Russian since 1945, formerly Russo-Japanese border island.