Volcanoes of Kamchatka
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How it came to be
The Volcanoes of Kamchatka are six areas of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East that together hold most of its volcanic features. The peninsula has about 160 volcanoes, 29 of them still active. The highest, Klyuchevskaya Sopka at 4,750 m, is the largest active volcano in the Northern Hemisphere and appeared about 7,000 years ago.
Its first recorded eruption was in 1697, and in 1788 Daniel Gauss and two other members of the Billings Expedition made the first ascent. Kronotsky Nature Reserve on the east coast was created in 1934 and contains Russia's only geyser basin. The Valley of Geysers, with about ninety geysers, was found by the local scientist Tatyana Ustinova in 1941.
The volcanoes were inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1996. According to UNESCO the area has the largest known variety of salmonid fish and exceptional concentrations of sea otter, brown bear and Steller's sea eagle. On 3 June 2007 a massive mudflow covered two thirds of the Valley of Geysers, but the large Velikan geyser was not buried and stayed active.
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