الجمعة، 9 مارس 2012

Tourism in the Kuril Islands / Russia

Kuril Islands chain of islands located between the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian and Japanese island of Hokkaido. These islands extend in the form of parentheses separates the Sea of ​​Okhotsk from the Pacific. Series of these islands stretches a distance of approximately 1200 km. The total area of ​​15.5 thousand square kilometers and population Nfosha more than 20 thousand people. Islands form two series are series parallel major and minor.

  Asalseltan includes 30 islands large and a large number of small islands. Islands are divided into the northern Kuril Islands and the southern Kuril Islands. Intervention of all the islands in the Russian province of Sakhalin. Islands archipelago and is still the South and Aatorob Konascir Habomai and Shikotan, and the subject of a dispute between Russia and Japan, which regards as belonging to the Hokkaido Prefecture

Series of these islands are located within the area of ​​seismic and volcanic active and most of the area of ​​mountains and volcanic rocks, with a rise in the highest point of the islands in 2339 meters above sea level (Island Atlassofa). Located within the islands volcano about 100 of which 39 active volcanoes, and there are lakes and the headwaters of the hot mineral waters, and in addition to this there are more than 60 volcanoes hidden under the surface of the water.

  These islands and the surrounding waters are rich in mineral wealth, including mercury and metal colored, natural gas and oil also discovered on the island of "Aatorob" reservoir of rhenium metal is the only one in the world, and there are SO there. It is estimated that the volume of gold reserves in the islands about 1870 tons, and about 9300 tons of silver, titanium, about 40 million tons, while the iron is estimated its size at about 275 million tons. Despite this, the extraction operations are still limited Jaddafa these islands.

 Since the islands stretch for a considerable distance from north to south, the vegetation is very different. Northern islands with few plants and shrubs consisting mainly of poplar and birch and willow and pine. The southern islands are growing in coniferous forests and trees, oak and elm and Alasvindan and climbing plants as diverse as Chinese Artancea, lemon and blueberries. The most important plants that grow on the island of Kita and continue south, where bamboo plants form a dense forest where the traffic is difficult. Abound in these islands fruiting different wild plants.

Living on these islands are different kinds of wild animals such as bears, foxes and different types of rodents and various types of birds such as plovers, gulls, ducks, albatrosses, owls, hawks and others.

Live in the waters surrounding these islands and beaches of the kind of amphibious and aquatic animals such as various seals, whales and sea lions and various kinds of fish, crabs, mollusks, squid, sea cucumbers and sea urchins and marine plants.

Was decided in the month of February 1984, the formation of protected "Corellsk" natural, live and grow where 84 species of plants and animals listed in the list of Russia's endangered species.

The Kuril Islands, a unique blend of natural phenomena Kalprakin, earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural phenomena of exceptional

Terrain different forms of coastal rocks and gravel wonderful different colors and the most important and most wonderful places in these islands is the head of columns on the island of Konascir. Vertical wall that overlooks the water's surface and consists of five huge columns Bzaltah and six ribs formed by volcanic magma congelation when dropped in water

The highest volcanoes of the islands is a volcano, "Allied" Atlassofa on the island (2339 m.) In fact, the entire island is a top of the volcanic cone. Last eruption was in 1986.

Continue the process of changes in the terrain of these islands due to volcanic activity and earthquakes and tsunami. Another Tsunami hit the island was in November 2006.


 The difficulty of access to these islands and the lack of population centers and the unique geography makes it attractive sites for tourists and adventure enthusiasts. For sightseeing and only three islands (Konascir and Aatorob and Shikotan) not enough for one visit. It is worth visiting places in these islands, salmon rivers, as these fish come to the rivers to lay their eggs in the months of May and June and will last period for some types of salmon until the autumn




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