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{{Short description|Volcanic island in the Kurile island chain}}
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| name          = Kharimkotan
| native_name   = Харимкотан <br> 春牟古丹島
| image_name    = Kharimkotan - ISS005.jpg
| image_caption = Astronaut photograph of Kharimkotan Island from International Space Station
| area_km2         =68
| location      = [[Sea of Okhotsk]]
| coordinates   = {{coord|49.12|N|154.508|E|type:mountain}}
| pushpin_map                = Russia Sakhalin Oblast
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| archipelago   = [[Kuril Islands]]
| country       = Russia
| highest_mount    = Pik Severgin
| elevation_m      = 1145
| population    = 0
| ethnic_groups =[[Ainu people|Ainu]] (formerly) 
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'''Kharimkotan''' ({{langx|ru|Харимкотан}}); [[Japanese language|Japanese]] 春牟古丹島; '''Harimukotan-tō''', alternatively '''Harumukotan-tō''' or 加林古丹島; '''Karinkotan-tō''') is an uninhabited [[volcanic island]] located {{convert|15|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} from [[Onekotan]] 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]], from “village of many [[Cardiocrinum]]”.

[[File:Onekotan.png|thumb|Topographic map of Onekotan with Kharimkotan]]

==Geology==
Kharimkotan is roughly oval, measuring {{convert|8|km|mi}} by {{convert|12|km|mi}} with an area of {{convert|68|km2|sqmi|0|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/ichthyology/okhotskia/ikip/Info/physical.html|title=International Kuril Island Project（IKIP）|publisher=University of Washington Fish Collection or the respective authors|access-date=2010-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006073043/http://www.burkemuseum.org/static/okhotskia/|archive-date=2012-10-06|url-status=dead}}</ref> The landscapes of the island are quite diverse; however, a significant part of the island's surface is covered with fine yellow ash, resembling desert dunes. On the north-western cape are the ruins of an Ainu village and in the north of the island, on the shore of Severgin Bay, is the abandoned settlement of Severgino. There are a number of small freshwater lakes.

Kharimkotan is separated by the Sixth Kuril Strait from [[Onekotan]], located 15 kilometers to the northeast, and by the Severgin Strait  from [[Shiashkotan]], located 29 kilometers to the south-west. There are no convenient anchorage sites.

The island consists of a dormant [[stratovolcano]], ''' Pik Severgin''' -({{langx|ru| влк.Севергина }}; [[Japanese language|Japanese]] 春牟古丹岳; ''Harikotan-dake''),  which rises to {{convert|1,157|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} above sea level. The peak is marked by two horseshoe shaped [[volcanic crater]]s created by the collapse of the volcano's upper slopes. Other evidence of the collapse can be seen on the peninsulas to the east and northwest which were formed by the debris. The volcano has erupted occasionally from the 18th century onwards, with the last recorded eruption in 1933 sending volcanic ash as far away as [[Paramushir]]. The collapse of the cone resulted in a debris-[[avalanche]] which subsequently caused a [[tsunami]], which killed two people on Pamamushir. The path on which the debris took is visible on [[satellite imagery]].

<gallery mode=packed>
OnekotanNASA.jpg|[[Onekotan]] Island (center), with [[Makanrushi]] at upper left and Kharimkotan at bottom (south)
ISS055-E-114534 - View of Earth.jpg|Kharimkotan to the left (south) of Onekotan
</gallery>

==History==
Kharimkotan was inhabited by the [[Ainu people|Ainu]] at the time of European contact. The inhabitants subsisted by growing the edible bulbs of the Cardiocrinum, as well as fishing and hunting. The island appears on an official map showing the territories of [[Matsumae clan|Matsumae Domain]], a [[han (administrative division)|feudal domain]] of [[Edo period]] [[Japan]] dated 1644, and these holdings were officially confirmed by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in 1715.  However, by 1736 the Ainu adopted [[Russian Orthodoxy]] and were taxed as Russian subjects by the [[Empire of Russia]]. In 1811, it was reported that most could speak the [[Russian language]] and had adopted Russian names. In 1855, [[sovereignty]] under Russia was recognised by the terms of the [[Treaty of Shimoda]], but the island was transferred to the [[Empire of Japan]] per the [[Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875)]] along with the rest of the Kuril islands. In 1884, the Ainu on Kharimkotan were resettled by the Japanese authorities to [[Shikotan]]. The island was formerly administered as part of Shimushu District of [[Nemuro Subprefecture]] of [[Hokkaidō]]. In January 1933, a Japanese settlement was destroyed by an eruption of the volcano, and the settlement was abandoned by the Japanese. After [[World War II]], the island came under the control of the [[Soviet Union]], and is now administered as part of the [[Sakhalin Oblast]] of the [[Russian Federation]].

==See also==
*[[List of volcanoes in Russia]]

==Notes==
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== References ==
* {{cite gvp|vnum=290300|title=Kharimkotan}}

==Further reading==
{{refbegin}}
* Gorshkov, G. S. ''Volcanism and the Upper Mantle Investigations in the Kurile Island Arc''. Monographs in geoscience. New York: Plenum Press, 1970. {{ISBN|0-306-30407-4}}
* Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich, and James Greive. The History of Kamtschatka and the Kurilski Islands, with the Countries Adjacent. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1963. 
* Rees, David. ''The Soviet Seizure of the Kuriles''. New York: Praeger, 1985. {{ISBN|0-03-002552-4}} 
* Takahashi, Hideki, and Masahiro Ōhara. ''Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin''. Bulletin of the Hokkaido University Museum, no. 2-. Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido University Museum, 2004.
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==External links==
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* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223043232/http://www.oceandots.com/pacific/kuril/kharimkotan.php |date=December 23, 2010 |title=Oceandots }}

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