This island is highly mountainous, and reaches its highest point of 5,279 feet at Mount Lopatin.
This island is highly mountainous, and reaches its highest point of 5,279 feet at Mount Lopatin. Major settlements on it include Okha, Poronaysk, Tomari, and Yuzhno, the latter three found in the region called Karafuto when it was controlled by the Japanese. About 100 miles wide, it runs 589 miles from north to south, and is surrounded by the Tatar Strait and the Sea of Okhotsk. FTP, what is this Russian island notorious as a penal colony?
This island is highly mountainous, and reaches its highest point of 5,279 feet at Mount Lopatin.
Sakhalin Island