Terrain Map, Kamchatka Peninsula
March 16, 2003
Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, lying between the Sea of Okhotsk to the west and the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean to the east, is one of the most active volcanic regions along the Pacific Ring of Fire. It covers an area about the size of Colorado but contains more than 100 volcanoes stretching across the 1000-kilometer-long (620-mile-long) land mass. SRTM image
Topics:
Environment, Geology, Earth, Geography, Pacific Ring of Fire, Okhotsk, Kamchatka Peninsula, Kamchatka, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Pacific ocean, Volcano, Plate tectonics
