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計吐夷島 けといとう Ketoy

Northern Kuril Islands

Ainu spellings: Ketoi

The last island in Torii's list; his informants' own knowledge of the chain ended at Simushir, the next island south (pp. 40–41).

Location

47.3352, 152.4805 · Coordinates: OpenStreetMap Nominatim, 2026-09-11, on 計吐夷島. Open in OpenStreetMap

Referents

  • island The island between Ushishir and Simushir; Russian Кетой

Analyses

Attestations

  • Ketoi oral record 1903 鳥居龍藏『千島アイヌ』第二章「千島地名解」
    古より斯く云ふ

    Torii records only that the name is old.

    鳥居1903 p. 44

Sources

鳥居1903