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Ketoy
Ketoy. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Ketoy (or Ketoi) (Russian: Кетой; Ketoi-tō) is an uninhabited volcanic island located in the centre of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language for "skeleton" or "bad".

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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