Tyuleny Island (Sea of Okhotsk)

This article is about the island in the Sea of Okhotsk. For other similarly named islands, see Tyuleny Island.
Tyuleny
Тюлений
Island
Northern fur seal rookery on the Island beside a bird colony.
Northern fur seal rookery on the Island beside a bird colony.
Location of Tyuleny Island in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Location of Tyuleny Island in the Sea of Okhotsk.
CountryRussian Federation
Federal subjectSakhalin Oblast
Elevation
18 m (59 ft)

Tyuleny Island (Ostrov Tyuleniy) is a small uninhabited island in the Sea of Okhotsk, to the east of Russia's Sakhalin Island, in Northeast Asia. It is also known by its Japanese name 海豹島 (Kaihyo Island) and has two widely used spelling alternatives: Tuleny and Tyuleniy.