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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