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    The Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian: полуостров Камчатка, romanized: poluostrov Kamchatka, pronounced [pəlʊˈostrəf kɐmˈt͡ɕætkə]) is a 1,250-kilometre-long...
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    administrative division of the krai, under the name of Koryak Okrug. The Kamchatka Peninsula forms the majority of the krai's territory, separating the Sea of...
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  • up Kamchatka in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Kamchatka Peninsula is a peninsula in northeast Russia. Kamchatka may also refer to: Kamchatka Krai...
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    400 sq mi), encompassing the southern half of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The administrative center of Kamchatka Oblast was the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky...
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    medved, is a subspecies of brown bear native to the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula. The Kamchatka brown bear is the biggest brown bear in Eurasia, with a body...
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    East, including the Kamchatka Peninsula, eastern part of Magadan Oblast and northwards to the southern Chukchi Peninsula. Kamchatka grayling has a typically...
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    The volcanoes of Kamchatka are a large group of volcanoes situated on the Kamchatka Peninsula, in eastern Russia. The Kamchatka River and the surrounding...
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    Many major earthquakes have occurred in the region of the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia. Events in 1737, 1923 and 1952, were megathrust earthquakes...
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  • list of active and extinct volcanoes in Russia. Volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and the Russian Far East. Volcanoes...
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    District of Kamchatka Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, located on Medny Island in the Commander Islands group east of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The village...
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    Britannica: "Taymyr Peninsula". Encyclopædia Britannica: "Kamchatka Peninsula". Heos, Bridget (2010). The creation of peninsulas (1st ed.). New York:...
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  • Thumbnail for 2024 Kamchatka Mil Mi-8 crash
    On 31 August 2024, a Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashed in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, killing all 22 people on board. The aircraft, which was operated by Vityaz-Aero...
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    wintering in Okhotsk it moved to the mouth of the Kamchatka River on the east coast of the peninsula. In July–August 1728 it sailed north and then north-east...
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    Northern Expedition (Russian: Великая Северная экспедиция) or Second Kamchatka Expedition (Russian: Вторая Камчатская экспедиция) was one of the largest...
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  • Thumbnail for 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake
    The 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The 9.0 Mw earthquake triggered a major tsunami that hit Severo-Kurilsk...
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    The Kamchatka (Russian: Камча́тка) is the longest river in Kamchatka peninsula, located in Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East. It flows into the Pacific...
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    as Anadyr Time (ANAT), is a time zone in Russia, named after the Kamchatka Peninsula. It is 12 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+12:00) and 9 hours ahead of Moscow...
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    Vitus Bering (category History of the Kamchatka Peninsula)
    tsar to captain the First Kamchatka Expedition, an expedition set to sail north from Russian outposts on the Kamchatka Peninsula, with the charge to map...
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  • them. Macau Peninsula Hengchun Peninsula Chukchi Peninsula Faddeyevsky Peninsula Gyda Peninsula Kamchatka Peninsula Mikhailov Peninsula Muravyov-Amursky...
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  • (Kamchatka Peninsula) Golovnin (Kuril Islands) Karymsky Caldera (Kamchatka Peninsula) Karymshina (Kamchatka Peninsula) Khangar (Kamchatka Peninsula) Ksudach...
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  • Vladimir Atlasov (category History of the Kamchatka Peninsula)
    systematic exploration of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Atlasov Island, an uninhabited volcanic island off the southern tip of Kamchatka, and the Atlasova volcano...
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  • The Kamchatka Sled Dog (Russian: Камчатская ездовая собака, lit. 'Kamchatka riding dog') is a rare landrace of sled laika developed by the Itelmen and...
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    Koryaksky (category Volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula)
    со́пка) is an active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. It lies within sight of Kamchatka Krai's administrative center, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky...
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    approximately 1,300 km (810 mi) northeast from Hokkaido in Japan to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the north Pacific Ocean...
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    Itelmens (category Kamchatka Peninsula)
    Ительмены, romanized: Itel'meny) are an Indigenous ethnic group of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The Itelmen language is distantly related to Chukchi and...
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    Klyuchevskaya Sopka (category Mountains of the Kamchatka Peninsula)
    from the Bering Sea. The volcano is part of the natural Volcanoes of Kamchatka UNESCO World Heritage Site. Klyuchevskaya Sopka is ranked 15th in the...
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    Koryaks (category Kamchatka Peninsula)
    of the Russian Far East, who live immediately north of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Kamchatka Krai and inhabit the coastlands of the Bering Sea.[citation...
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    Shiveluch (category Volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula)
    Itelmen is the northernmost active volcano in Kamchatka Krai, Russia. It and Karymsky are Kamchatka's largest, most active and most continuously erupting...
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    Steller's sea cow and Steller's sea eagle. His exploration of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Commander Islands significantly expanded scientific knowledge...
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    ICBMs)- 24 minutes later to land in the Klyuchi target area on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The night of the scheduled launch was the night that Korean Air...
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