Japan The Kuril Islands From Nipon To Kamchatka Etc Urap I Tokotan Bay From A Japanese Government Survey 1893 3 Sea Miles

Author : Henry James Snow
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230205632
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Notes on the Kuril Islands written by Henry James Snow and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... VI. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EACH ISLAND AND THE STRAITS Kunashir, the first of the Kurils commencing from the southwestern end of the chain, extends far into the wide bay, the shores of which form the eastern coast of the island of Yezo, between Capes Sirotoko and Noishaf. Yezo Strait, which separates this island from Yezo, is from 8 to 16 miles wide. At its narrowest part, off the south-west end of Kunashir, it is much congested by sandbanks, which are continually shifting. The straits have been fairly well surveyed, but the island of Kunashir has not yet received much attention. This island is 64 miles long, and from ajbout 2 to 16 miles wide, and has an area of about 444 square miles. There is a permanent population of about 1475, which is largely increased during the summer months by fishermen, who resort to it for the capture of herring, salmon trout, and salmon. The only settlement of any size is the village of Tomari, at the head of the bay of that name, at the south-west end of the island. There are various fishing-stations along the coast, and some houses at the sulphur-mines of Shishiki, at the foot of Rouse Mountain, towards the middle of the island. These sulphur deposits are now practically exhausted. There are no harbours on Kunashir, and the coast on both sides is rooky. The southern point, Cape Keramoi, is a low narrow tongue of land extending some 6 miles in a southerly direction. Cape Moimoto, the north-eastern point of the island, is terminated by a high square-looking bluff, which at a distance looks like an islet; it is, however, joined to the main island by a narrow, low sandy neck. A dangerous reef, in some places awash, extends BETWEEN THEM. off this cape for a considerable distance in a north-easterly direction....