1) Island of the Kuril Islands 
Shumshu (Шумшу, Shumushu; 占守島 Shumushu-tō), is the next to northernmost island of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The name of the island is derived from the Ainu language meaning `good island”. It is separated from Paramushir by the very narrow Second Kuril Strait in the northeast {conv.....