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Chyornie Bratya
Chyornie Bratya ((ロシア語:Чёрные Братья);) is collectively the name for a pair of uninhabited volcanic islands located between Simushir and Urup in the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The larger of the two is named Chirpoy, and the smaller is named Brat Chirpoev (Russian for ''Chirpoy's Brother''). The origin of the names is uncertain: the original Ainu language name of the island was ''Repunmoshiri'', a word meaning “place of many small birds”.
==Geography==
The Chirpoy islands are the remains of a partially submerged volcanic caldera which measures 8–9 km wide. The two islands are surrounded by a number of small islets and offshore rocks and together, the collective forms the Chernye Brat'ya (Russian for ''Black Brothers'') Islands. Both islands are separated by the Snou Strait.
Chirpoy, the northernmost of the two islands, has an area of approximately 21 km², and consists of three overlapping stratovolcanoes named Cherny and Snow. Vulkan Chernoga (), with a height of is the tallest point on the island. On November 27, 2012 the volcano named Snow erupted on this island, and is continuing as of January 2, 2013.
Brat Chirpoev, the southern of the two islands, has an area of approximately 16 km². However, the tallest structure out of both islands is on Brat Chirpoy where tall Brat Chirpoev dominates the island. Brat Chirpoy is the site of the southernmost of five major Steller sea lion rookeries on the Kuril Islands.
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