Kamchatka Peninsula
Coordinates: 57°N 160°E / 57°N 160°E
The Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian: полуо́стров Камча́тка, poluostrov Kamchatka) is a peninsula in eastern Russia. It is 1,250 kilometres (780 mi) long. It 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
The eruption of Klyuchevskaya Sopka
Illustration from Stepan Krasheninnikov's Account of the Land of Kamchatka (1755)
Three Brothers rocks in the Avacha Bay
Adam Johann von Krusenstern in Avacha Bay by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, c. 1806, National Museum in Warsaw
A Kamchatka brown bear in the summer
Opala volcano in the southern part of Kamchatka.
The lake-filled Akademia Nauk caldera, seen here from the north with Karymsky volcano in the foreground.
References
- ↑ Быкасов В. Е. Ошибка в географии // Известия Всесоюзного Географического Общества. — 1991. — № 6. (in Russian)
- ↑ "Kamchatka Peninsula". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
- 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]