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

Map of Russia - Kamchatka Krai (2008-03)
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). It is between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk.

The Kamchatka peninsula contains the volcanoes of Kamchatka, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Images for kids

  • Kamchatka peninsula topo

    Topography of the Kamchatka Peninsula

  • OPALA

    Opala volcano in the southern part of Kamchatka.

  • Akademia nauk

    The lake-filled Akademia Nauk caldera, seen here from the north with Karymsky volcano in the foreground.

  • Der Berg Kamtschatka (aus Krascheninnikow, Opisanie Zemli Kamcatki)

    Illustration from Stepan Krasheninnikov's Account of the Land of Kamchatka (1755)

  • Kamchatka three brothers rdfr

    Three Brothers rocks in the Avacha Bay

  • Cобор Святой Живоначальной Троицы в городе Петропавловске-Камчатском

    Temple of the Sacred Trinity in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

  • Weitsch Adam Johann von Krusenstern in Avacha Bay

    Adam Johann von Krusenstern in Avacha Bay by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, c. 1806, National Museum in Warsaw

  • Brown-bear-in-spring

    A Kamchatka brown bear in the spring

  • Kamchatka amo 2013143 lrg

    Kamchatka Peninsula surrounded by algal bloom in 2013


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