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Ekarma

32.4 km² rising to 1,170 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

32.4km²

Area

29km

Coastline

1,170m

Highest point

Ekarma

People

9°C

Warmest sea

August

284km

To the mainland

When to go to Ekarma

Good all year round.

The sea is warmest in August (9 °C) and coolest in March (2 °C). The water never reaches 21 °C: bring a wetsuit.

2°-1°-3°

Jan19

2°-2°-4°

Feb21

2°0°-2°

Mar20

2°1°0°

Apr15

2°3°2°

May13

4°5°4°

Jun14

7°8°7°

Jul16

9°10°10°

Aug16

8°10°9°

Sep15

6°7°6°

Oct18

4°4°2°

Nov20

3°0°-1°

Dec23

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

Ekarma is an island in Russia. It covers 32.4 km², with 29 km of coastline. Its highest point, Ekarma, rises to 1,170 m. Nobody lives on it. The nearest mainland is 284 km away.

Getting there

284 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast

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On the island

What you find on Ekarma.

1volcanoesEkarma

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

Cross-checked with our atlases

Ekarma in our other atlases

Everything Coastya, Peakyas, Lakeyas and Cascadyas know about what lies inside Ekarma, each with its own numbers.

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Highest point
1,170m
Ekarma
according to Peakyas

1 mountains

on Peakyas, the mountain atlas

Ekarma1,170m

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The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 316 m above the sea. 38 % of it is below 200 m.

7 %0–50 m
31 %50–200 m
42 %200–500 m
19 %500–1,000 m
<1 %1,000–2,000 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.

Ekarma32 km²

Manhattan54 km²

Santorini76 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	0	1	3	5	8	10	10	7	4	0
Night low (°C)	-3	-4	-2	0	2	4	7	10	9	6	2	-1
Sea (°C)	2	2	2	2	2	4	7	9	8	6	4	3
Rain (mm)	62	73	90	69	82	75	101	118	117	108	111	82
Wet days	19	21	20	15	13	14	16	16	15	18	20	23
Sun h/day	1.4	2.1	3.7	4.0	4.2	3.9	3.6	3.4	4.7	3.7	1.5	1.1
Wind (km/h)	34	35	33	29	23	18	16	18	22	29	33	35

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	−0.3	−0.1	−2.0	+0.1	+0.1	−0.4	+1.0	−0.3	+0.5	+0.6	+0.3	+0.3
2021	+0.1	−0.1	−0.3	−1.0	+0.7	−0.2	+0.1	+1.0	+1.1	+0.1	+0.4	+0.5
2022	+0.8	+0.6	+0.8	+0.5	+0.6	+0.6	−0.4	−1.9	−0.8	+0.4	+0.6	+0.8
2023	−0.1	±0.0	+0.2	+0.2	±0.0	−0.5	−1.3	−2.3	−0.6	±0.0	+0.2	±0.0
2024	+0.2	+0.2	±0.0	+0.2	−0.2	−0.8	−1.2	−1.2	−0.6	−0.3	−0.3	+0.3
2025	+0.3	+0.7	+0.4	+0.3	+0.1	−0.7	−1.2	−2.3	−1.3	−1.1	−0.5	±0.0

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

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About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q1066434) · 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
Beaches, mountains, lakes and waterfalls	Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0