Ryponkicha Island
North Kuril city district, Sakhalin region, Russia.
Description:
Ryponkicha Island is one of the two islands of Ushishishiri, which is part of the Great Range of Islands of the Kuril Archipelago. It is part of the North Kuril district, Sakhalin region, the Russian Federation. The island is currently uninhabited.
The area of the island is about three times smaller than the nearby one, 0.5 kilometers to the south-west of Yankicha Island. The surface of the island is quite flat, smoothly passes from a height of 60 meters above sea level in the northern part, to 121 meters in the southwest. Ryponkicha Island is similar to an elongated rhombus, about 2 kilometers long and 1 kilometer wide.
On the island lives, and nest a large number of species of birds. There are quite rare representatives of the family of birds, such as a large snail, a red-horned horse, a groom and a winter man.