Kurile Islands

[ koor-il ahy-luhnz, koo-reel ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

plural noun

First recorded in 1760–70 as Kuriles

In this year the Company took formal possession of all the Kurile Islands.

The aboriginal population is about six thousand, including a few hundred dwellers on the Kurile Islands.

The original paganism of Japan is probably to be studied in the Kurile Islands.

All over Yezo and the Kurile Islands remains of an extinct race of pit-dwellers are to be seen.

At the same time I gained from them valuable information as regards the neighbouring country and the Kurile Islands.

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