Kamchatka Peninsula
Coordinates: 57°N 160°E / 57°N 160°E
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The Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian: полуо́стров Камча́тка, 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)
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References
- ↑ Быкасов В. Е. Ошибка в географии // Известия Всесоюзного Географического Общества. — 1991. — № 6. (in Russian)
- ↑ Kamchatka PeninsulaEncyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
Sources
- Gleadhill, Diana. Kamchatka: A Journal & Guide to Russia's Land of Ice and Fire (2007). Hong Kong: Odyssey Books. ISBN 978-962-217-780-2..
- Kamchatka in Full Circle with Michael Pailin. BBC tv. [1]