The Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometre-long peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about 270,000 km2. The Sea of Okhotsk bounds the peninsula's western coastline, immediately offshor
Topography of the Kamchatka Peninsula
The eruption of Klyuchevskaya Sopka
Opala volcano in the southern part of Kamchatka
The lake-filled Akademia Nauk caldera, seen from the north with Karymsky volcano in the foreground
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East. The islands stretch approximately 1,300 km northeast from Hokkaido in Ja
A coastline along one of the Kuril Islands
Caldera of the island Ushishir
Stratovolcano Mt. Ruruy as viewed from Yuzhno-Kurilsk
Kuril Ainu people next to their traditional dwelling