🏝️ Polonsky Island

Polonsky Island, or Polonskogo, is an unpopulated island in the Habomai Islands in the southern part of the Lesser Kuril Islands which administratively belongs to Yuzhno-Kurilsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, in Russia. However, the Habomai Islands, together with Iturup, Kunashir and Shikotan, are claimed by Japan. Polonsky island got its name from the Russian explorer and geographer Aleksandr Semyonovich Polonsky. The island had a small Japanese population for several decades, ending during World War II.