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Native name: Анучина Akiyuri | |
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 Landsat picture of Anuchina Island | |
 Interactive map of Anuchin Island | |
| Geography | |
| Location | North Pacific |
| Coordinates | 43°21′59.1″N146°0′21″E / 43.366417°N 146.00583°E /43.366417; 146.00583 |
| Archipelago | Kuril Islands |
| Area | 5 km2 (1.9 sq mi) |
| Administration | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 0 (2010) |
| Ethnic groups | Ainu,Japanese (formerly) |
Anuchin Island (Russian:Анучина,Japanese:秋勇留島,romanized: Akiyuri-to,Ainu:アキ・ユリ,romanized: Aki-Yuri) is an uninhabited island in theHabomai Islands sub-group of theKuril Islands chain in the south of theSea of Okhotsk, northwestPacific Ocean. Named afterDmitry Anuchin, Russian anthropologist, ethnographist and archaeologist. Island's Japanese name is derived from theAinu language.
Anuchina was originally uninhabited. In 1799, under theTokugawa shogunate of Japan, a trading post and settlement was established on the island by the villages ofAkkeshi andNemuro as a base for fishermen, and for trade with theAinu, the native peoples of the Kurils,Sakhalin andHokkaidō. Administration of the island came under the village ofHabomai in Hokkaido during theMeiji period. The inhabitants of the island were mostly engaged incommercial fishing forPollock and harvestingkonbu.
During theInvasion of the Kuril Islands by theSoviet Union after the end of World War II, the island was seized without resistance. In 1945, its native inhabitants weredeported[1] to Hokkaido and the island was uninhabited except forSoviet Border Troops until they were withdrawn upon thedissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The island is now uninhabited and is administered as part of theSakhalin Oblast of theRussian Federation.
The offshore islets of Kuril islands mostly remained unnamed during the Soviet era. TheRussian Geographical Society made an expedition to the area in 2012 to generate ideas for naming further five islets which were officially given Russian names in 2017. One of them, Derevyanko,[2] is part of Anuchina's offshore islets.[3][4]
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