Ilya Muromets Waterfall

Coordinates: 45°31′0″N 148°53′20″E / 45.51667°N 148.88889°E

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Ilya Muromets Waterfall Rakkibetsu Waterfall

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Location	Iturup Island (Kuril Islands)
Coordinates	45°31′0″N 148°53′20″E / 45.51667°N 148.88889°E / 45.51667; 148.88889
Type	Horsetail ribbon
Total height	459 feet (140 meters)
Number of drops	1?
Watercourse	unnamed creek
World height ranking	≥652^[1]

Ilya Muromets (Илья Муромец), named after the East Slavic folk hero, is a very steep vertical waterfall on the Bear's Peninsula of Iturup, one of the largest Kuril Islands. Iturup has been the subject of a territorial dispute between Russia and Japan and also has a Japanese name, Rakkibetsu Waterfall (ラッキベツの滝). The water stream falls abruptly from the eastern slope of the Demon Volcano into the Pacific Ocean.^[2] Ilya Muromets is rarely seen by tourists, however, because it can be accessed only by boat.^[3]

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Ilya Muromets Waterfall

References

^ "World Waterfall Database".
^ Арсеев Г., Бровко П. Реки прыгают в океан. Владивосток: Океан и человек, 1984.
^ "Водопад Илья Муромец на фото и карте". Archived from the original on 2014-03-15. Retrieved 2014-03-15.

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Islands	Antsiferov Island Atlasov Island Awos Broutona Chirinkotan Chyornye Bratya Ekarma Habomai Islands Iturup Ketoy Kharimkotan Kunashir Lowuschki Rocks Makanrushi Matua Onekotan Paramushir Polonsky Island Raikoke Rasshua Shiashkotan Shikotan Shumshu Simushir Ushishir Urup
Volcanoes	Antsiferov Island Alaid Atsonupuri Baransky Berutarube Bogatyr Ridge Chikurachki Chirinkotan Chirip Chyornye Bratya Demon Ebeko Ekarma Fuss Peak Golets-Torny Group Golovnin Goryashchaya Sopka Grozny Group Ivao Group Karpinsky Group Ketoy Kharimkotan Kolokol Group Kuntomintar Lomonosov Group Lvinaya Past Medvezhya Mendeleyeva Milna (volcano) Nemo Peak Prevo Peak Raikoke Rasshua Rudakov Sarychev Peak Sinarka Smirnov Srednii Tao-Rusyr Caldera Tyatya Tri Sestry Uratman Ushishir Vernadskii Ridge Zavaritski Caldera
Other geographical features	Bussol Strait Ilya Muromets Waterfall Kasatka Bay Cape Koritsky Kuril–Kamchatka Trench
Cities and towns	Kurilsk Severo-Kurilsk Yuzhno-Kurilsk
Events	Menashi–Kunashir rebellion Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875) Russo-Japanese War Hawaii Operation Invasion of the Kuril Islands Battle of Shumshu Japanese evacuation of Karafuto and the Kuril Islands Kuril Islands dispute Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253A
People	Ainu people William Robert Broughton Vasily Golovnin Takadaya Kahei Matsumae clan Maarten Gerritszoon Vries

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