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    Moneron Island, (Russian: Монерон, Japanese: 海馬島, romanized: Kaibato, トド島, Todojima, Ainu: Todomoshiri) is a small island off Sakhalin Island. It is a...
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    warning shots. The Korean airliner eventually crashed into the sea near Moneron Island west of Sakhalin in the Sea of Japan. All 269 passengers and crew...
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    Russian prohibited airspace past the west coast of Sakhalin Island near Moneron Island. The Soviet Air Force treated the unidentified aircraft as an intruding...
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    spokesman following the shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island in September 1983. He was dismissed as Chief of the General Staff...
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    Flight 007 incident in 1983, a South Korean Boeing 747 was fired upon near Moneron Island, after it veered into restricted Soviet airspace, by a Su-15TM based...
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    island. Sakhalin has two smaller islands associated with it, Moneron Island and Ush Island. Moneron, the only land mass in the Tatar strait, 7.2 km (4.5 mi)...
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    which was shot down on 1 September 1983 by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor near Moneron Island just west of Sakhalin Island during a period of heightened Cold...
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    except for Ulleungdo (South Korea). The most significant islands are Moneron, Rebun, Rishiri, Okushiri, Ōshima, Sado, Okinoshima, Ulleungdo, Askold...
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    jubatus). The only reliable report may have been of an individual shot at Moneron Island in 1949. Old Korean accounts also describe that the sea lion and...
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    EXS Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Boeing 747-230B rumonSea of Japan, near Moneron Island, Russian SFSR, USSR ENR 1983-09-01 265 9 251 5 † COM American Airlines...
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