Comprehensive
and current English language map of Russia's
Kamchatka Peninsula. This full-color
map covers the entire peninsula and provides
particular details about items of most interest
to travelers.
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Denotes
active volcanoes, hot springs, major
parks and reserves, wilderness huts,
trekking passes; |
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Names
all major, and secondary, rivers; |
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Current
village and road information; |
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Insets
of the Kommandorsky Islands and Northern
Kuril Islands; |
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Latitude
and longitude lines at 1° intervals; |
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Scale
1:1,000,000; 1mm - 1km; |
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Spot
heights of significant peaks and hills; |
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Contour
lines at 200 meters, bathymetric lines
at 100 meters; |
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Terrain
enhancement provided by NASA's Shuttle
Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data; |
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Published
in 2003 |
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Other
Features
High
Altitude Photograph's
Kamchatka's topography is captured
in a series of photographs taken from space.
Key geographic landmarks are labeled on
each photo. For orientation, a small
map highlights the approximate boundaries
covered by each photograph.
Seven regions are depicted:
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Kluchevskoy
Group of volcanoes |
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Kronotsky
Nature Reserve |
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Karimsky
Volcano/ Maly Semyachik Volcano; |
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Avacha
Bay/ Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky/ Avachinsky
Volcano; |
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Mutnovsky
Volcano/ Gorely Volcano; |
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Ksudach
Volcano/ Golyginskoye Lake; |
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Kurilskoye
Lake ; |
Expanded
Captions
Text, accompanying
every photo, describes the particular area
and provide a variety of facts about its
geological features.
Map's back cover alphabetically lists all
of Kamchatka's active volcanoes together
with their respective last eruption dates,
heights, and coordinates.
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Additional
Images
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