57°N 160°E / 57°N 160°E / 57; 160

Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. The pink area is the Kamchatka Krai which includes some of the mainland to the north.

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.

References

  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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