Atlasov Island, known in Russian as Ostrov Atlasova (Остров Атласова), or in Japanese as Araido (阿頼度島), is the northernmost island and volcano and also the highest volcano of the Kuril Islands, part of the Sakhalin Oblast in Russia.
Atlasovův ostrov (rusky Остров Атласова, Ostrov Atlasova; japonsky 阿頼度島, Araido-tō) je nejseverněji položený ostrov Kurilského souostroví, leží západně od Šumšu.
It is a part of the northern Kuril Islands, located to the east of the Island of Sakhalin and southwest of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian mainland.
The Kuril Islands consist of the Greater Kuril Chain and, at the southwest end, the parallel Lesser Kuril Chain. [2 ] The group termed the 'South Kurils' consists of those of the Lesser Kuril Chain together with Kunashir and Iturup in the…