Cruises from Paramushir
Paramushir is a volcanic island, one of a string of 57 forming the Kuril Islands that separate the Sea of Okhotsk and the North Pacific Ocean. The archipelago stretches from Japan northwards to the Kamchatka Peninsula, and all but the southern two are under Russian jurisdiction. Paramushir island is made up of a chain of 23 volcanoes, five of them active, the highest reaching 1816m.
Read moreSince the fall of the Soviet Union, decline in the herring fishery, and the massive tsunami of 1952, the island’s population has declined to a few thousand living in the NE port town Severo-Kurilsk.
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