Iturup

Iturup (Russian: Итуру́п and Oстров Итуру́п, Ostrov Iturup; Ainu: エツ゚ヲロシㇼ, Etuworop-sir; Japanese: 択捉島, Etorofu-tō) is one of the Kuril Islands. It is the largest and northernmost island in the southern Kurils, which are controlled by Russia but also claimed by Japan (see Kuril Islands dispute). Japan considers a site on Iturup to be its northernmost point.

The island was Japanese territory until the end of the Second World War in 1945, when Soviet forces took possession of all the Kurils and forced out Japanese residents.

Iturup is located near the southern end of the Kuril chain, between Kunashiri (19 km to the SW) and Urup (37 km to the NE). The town of Kurilsk, administrative center of Kurilsky District, is located roughly midway along its western shore.

  • Area - 3,139 km²
  • Length - 200 km
  • Width - 7–27 km
  • The strait between Iturup and Urup is known as the Vries Strait, after Dutch explorer Maarten Gerritsz Vries, the first recorded European to explore the area.

    Geography

    Iturup consists of volcanic massifs and mountain ridges. A series of a dozen volcanoes running NE to SW form the backbone of the island, the highest being Stokap (1,634 m) in the central part of Iturup. The shores of the island are high and abrupt. The vegetation mostly consists of spruce, larch, pine, fir, and mixed deciduous forests with alder, lianas and Kuril bamboo underbrush. The mountains are covered with birch and Siberian Dwarf Pine scrub, herbaceous flowers (including Fragaria iturupensis, the Iturup strawberry) or bare rocks.

    Podcasts:

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    Waterboy

    by: Live

    What do you say to the child
    Whose god is in the T.V.?
    And what do you say to the man
    Who blames the world on T.V.?
    They don't even know how to sing my song
    But they won't even try it
    With me, with me, with me
    Who is standing over playing like
    The teacher
    Harnessing the learned
    Who try but can't leave her
    I want to beg the liars to lay down
    Their sirens
    That play like the angels
    To my deep desire
    Free my son
    Let him walk right through the rain
    Free my son
    Make him waterboy
    Free my son
    There he stands down on the shore
    Free my son
    What do you say to the man
    Who treats her like a mother?
    And what do you say to the man
    Who treats him like a father?
    "Come and see my heart. Come inside
    And learn"?
    Come and see my soul, it's like yours,
    I say it's just like yours"?
    Who is making over
    Idolizing princes banishing the dreamers with
    Barbed-wire fences
    And telling all the children who run to
    Her feet
    That they have no vision
    And love's all diseased




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