Simushir Island, part of the Kuril Islands, is home to four large volcanoes, evenly spaced along the length of the island. (From left to right: Milna, Zavaritsky, Prevost, and Uratman.) (Image courtesy of NASA/Landsat)
This eye-catching satellite image shows Simushir, a little-known Russian island and former Soviet naval base where four volcanoes line up in a remarkably straight line and are equidistant from each other. One of these peaks was the site of one of the most significant eruptions in history, which dramatically changed the Earth's climate about 200 years ago.
Simushir is one of the Kuril Islands, a Russian-controlled archipelago of more than 50 volcanic islands in the North Pacific Ocean. Like the other Kuril Islands, sovereignty over Simushir has shifted between Russia and Japan several times over the past 400 years. In the recent past, the island was used as a secret Soviet nuclear submarine base until 1994, but is currently uninhabited.
This 5-mile (8 km) stretch of land contains four major volcanoes that can be seen from space. These towering formations, running from southeast to northwest (left to right), are Milna, Zavaritsky, Prevost, and Uratman.
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