Where is Kamchatka?
On the map
Many have come across this name - in director figurative meaning of the word. Where is this very Kamchatka? This is not Siberia, not Chukotka - much further! Imagine Japan, as well as Alaska. Then on the map of the world Kamchatka is located just north of Japan, but south of Alaska. This territory of the Russian Federation resembles a huge fish, which with its tail "attached" to Chukotka, and the main part "looks" at the Japanese islands.
Kamchatka, on the one hand, is washed by the Sea of Okhotsk, and on the other by the Barents Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
- This fairly large peninsula is a segment of the island arc, which is called the Kuril-Kamchatka, stretching over two thousand kilometers.
- And there are a lot of volcanoes on Kamchatka. Only operating - as much as 29! Of these, five are large, which are part of the Klyuchevskaya group. The height of each - from three to five thousand meters above sea level.
- In Kamchatka, indigenous peoples live: the Chukchi, Koryaks, Evens, Itelmen. The mixed population is traditionally called "Kamchadals".
Summarizing, Kamchatka is a peninsula located in the north-eastern part of the Eurasian continent. Its territory belongs to the Russian Federation.
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