Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-10473

Kuntomintar is a Pleistocene volcano that occupies the southern end of Shiashkotan Island in the central Kurils. A large crater on the west side opens toward the Sea of Okhotsk, with the scarp visible in this Space Shuttle image (with N to the upper left). NASA Space Shuttle image ISS005-E-6515, 2002 (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/).

Kuntomintar is a Pleistocene volcano that occupies the southern end of Shiashkotan Island in the central Kurils. A large crater on the west side opens toward the Sea of Okhotsk, with the scarp visible in this Space Shuttle image (with N to the upper left).

NASA Space Shuttle image ISS005-E-6515, 2002 (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/).

Kuntomintar