Yuri (island)
Native name: Юрий 勇留島 | |
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Landsat picture of Yuri Island | |
| Geography | |
| Location | North Pacific |
| Coordinates | 43°25′11″N 146°04′11″E / 43.41972°N 146.06972°E |
| Archipelago | Kuril Islands |
| Area | 10 km2 (3.9 sq mi) |
| Administration | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 0 (2010) |
| Ethnic groups | Ainu, Japanese (formerly) |
Yuri (Iurii) (Russian: Юрий, Japanese: 勇留島, romanized: Yuri-to, Ainu: ウリル, romanized: Uriru) is an uninhabited island in the Habomai Islands sub-group of the Kuril Islands chain in the south of the Sea of Okhotsk, northwest Pacific Ocean. The island is uninhabited from 1945 after the Soviet invasion of the Kuril Islands and deportation of Japanese to Hokkaido. It is currently administered as part of Yuzhno-Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast of the Russian Federation. Its name is derived from the Ainu language word for cormorant.