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Antsiferov Island

8.9 km² rising to 761 m out of the Sea of Okhotsk.

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Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

8.9km²

Area

15km

Coastline

761m

Highest point

People

10°C

Warmest sea

August

141km

To the mainland

When to go to Antsiferov Island

Good all year round.

The sea is warmest in August (10 °C) and coolest in March (1 °C). The water never reaches 21 °C: bring a wetsuit.

2°-1°-3°

Jan20

1°-2°-4°

Feb20

1°-1°-2°

Mar19

1°1°0°

Apr13

2°3°2°

May12

4°5°4°

Jun12

8°9°8°

Jul13

10°11°10°

Aug13

9°10°9°

Sep14

7°7°6°

Oct19

4°3°2°

Nov21

3°0°-1°

Dec24

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days

Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.

Island in Russia

Antsiferov Island is an island in Russia. It covers 8.9 km², with 15 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 761 m. Nobody lives on it. The nearest mainland is 141 km away.

Getting there

141 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast

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On the island

What you find on Antsiferov Island.

1volcanoesShirinki

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.

The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 273 m above the sea. 42 % of it is below 200 m.

11 %0–50 m
31 %50–200 m
43 %200–500 m
15 %500–1,000 m

Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).

Size, for real

Next to islands you may know.

Antsiferov Island9 km²

Capri10 km²

Manhattan54 km²

5 km

All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).

Month by month

The weather on the island.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon high (°C)	-1	-2	-1	1	3	5	9	11	10	7	3	0
Night low (°C)	-3	-4	-2	0	2	4	8	10	9	6	2	-1
Sea (°C)	2	1	1	1	2	4	8	10	9	7	4	3
Rain (mm)	71	80	90	68	75	76	98	113	116	118	120	96
Wet days	20	20	19	13	12	12	13	13	14	19	21	24
Sun h/day	1.2	1.8	3.2	3.9	4.4	4.4	4.1	3.5	4.4	3.1	1.4	0.9
Wind (km/h)	32	34	32	27	22	18	16	17	22	29	34	34

Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.

Recent years

Warmer and cooler years at sea.

Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	−0.1	−0.4	−0.3	+0.1	−0.6	−0.2	+1.0	−0.4	+0.4	+0.9	+0.3	+0.4
2021	−1.0	−0.4	−0.5	+0.4	+0.7	+0.8	+1.1	+2.2	+0.9	−0.2	+0.5	+0.5
2022	+0.8	+0.6	+0.8	+1.0	+1.0	+1.4	+1.8	+0.3	+0.5	+1.3	+1.3	+0.8
2023	−0.2	+0.2	+0.3	+0.3	−0.1	−0.5	−1.1	−1.1	+0.2	+0.9	+0.6	+0.2
2024	+0.3	+0.2	−0.1	±0.0	−0.2	−0.8	−0.4	−0.6	−0.5	+0.2	−0.5	+0.3
2025	+0.6	+1.0	+0.2	+0.6	+0.4	−0.2	+0.2	−0.2	±0.0	±0.0	+0.5	+0.5

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

Antsiferov Island — 敷香 at Japanese Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

Nearby

More islands nearby.

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About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q614531) · CC0
Outline	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Sea temperature	NOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020
Climate	NASA POWER · 1991–2020
Relief, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Towns	GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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