Atlasov Island

Atlasov Island (Russian: Остров Атласова, Japanese: 阿頼度島,) is the northernmost island and volcano and also the highest volcano of the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia.

Understand

The island has an area of 119 m², and is uninhabited.

It is essentially the cone of the submarine volcano Vulkan Alaid protruding above the Sea of Okhotsk to a height of 2,285 metres.

Get in

By boat

You can get to the island from Severo-Kurilsk by boat. The path is approximately 45 km.

See

• 1 Alaid. The base of the volcano is Atlas Island  
• 2 Taketomi. The base of the volcano is the peninsula of Vladimir  
• 3 Atlasov Lighthouse (city park).