知林古丹島 ちりんこたんとう Chirinkotan
Northern Kuril Islands
Ainu spellings: Chirin kotan
Torii's island names come from his Kuril Ainu informants グリゴリ, ゲラシム and アウエリキ (p. 40).
Location
48.9804, 153.4861 · Coordinates: OpenStreetMap Nominatim, 2026-09-11, on 知林古丹島. Open in OpenStreetMap
Referents
- island The small island west of Ekarma; Russian Чиринкотан
Analyses
Attestations
- Chirin kotan oral record 1903 鳥居龍藏『千島アイヌ』第二章「千島地名解」
Torii gives the form without comment.
鳥居1903 p. 43
Sources
鳥居1903