Kamchatka Peninsula

Coordinates: 57°N 160°E / 57°N 160°E / 57; 160

Kamchatka Peninsula is in the Russian Far East. The pink area is the Kamchatka Krai, which includes some of the mainland to the north.

The Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian: полуо́стров Камча́ткаcode: ru is deprecated , poluostrov Kamchatka) is a peninsula in eastern Russia. It is 1,250 km (780 mi) long and covers about 270,000 km² (100,000 sq mi)^[1] between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk.^[2]

Kamchatka has the Volcanoes of Kamchatka, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Kamchatka Peninsula Media

Topography of the Kamchatka Peninsula
The eruption of Klyuchevskaya Sopka
Kamchatka Peninsula surrounded by algal bloom in 2013
A Kamchatka brown bear in the summer
Opala volcano in the southern part of Kamchatka
The lake-filled Akademia Nauk caldera, seen from the north with Karymsky volcano in the foreground
Koryaksky volcano towering over Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Kronotsky volcano in the Kronotsky Nature Reserve east of Lake Kronotskoye
Illustration from Stepan Krasheninnikov's Account of the Land of Kamchatka (1755)

References

↑ Быкасов В. Е. Ошибка в географии // Известия Всесоюзного Географического Общества. — 1991. — № 6. (in Russian)
↑ "Kamchatka Peninsula". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2008-02-20.

Sources

Gleadhill, Diana (2007), Kamchatka: A Journal & Guide to Russia's Land of Ice and Fire, Hong Kong: Odyssey Books, ISBN 978-962-217-780-2.
Kamchatka in Full Circle with Michael Pailin. BBC tv. [1]

Other websites

UNESCO World Heritage Site profile

[1] Быкасов В. Е. Ошибка в географии // Известия Всесоюзного Географического Общества. — 1991. — № 6. (in Russian)

[2] "Kamchatka Peninsula". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2008-02-20.

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