Antsiferov Island
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Antsiferov Island (Russian: Остров Анциферова), also known as Shirinki Island (Japanese: 志林規島, Hepburn: Shirinki-tō; Russian: Остров Ширинки), is an uninhabited volcanic island located in the northern Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its Japanese name derives from the Ainu language for "place of tall waves". Its nearest neighbor is Paramushir, located 15 km away across the Luzhin Strait. It is currently named for the cossack explorer Danila Antsiferov, who first described it along with other northern Kuril islands in the early eighteenth century.
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