Onekotan
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Onekotan (Russian: Онекотан; Japanese: 温禰古丹島, romanized: Onekotan-tō, occasionally Onnekotan-tō; Ainu: オネコタン / オネコタㇴ) is an uninhabited volcanic island located near the northern end of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language for "large village”. It is the second largest island, after Paramushir, in the northern subgroup of the Kurils. It is administratively included in the Severo-Kurilsky District of Sakhalin oblast, Russia.
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