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	Kamchatka
		Kamchatka is a 1,250-kilometer-long peninsula in the Russian far east, with an area of 270,000 km².
		The central valley and the Kamchatka River[?] are flanked by large volcanic ranges, containing around 160 volcanoes, 29 of them still active.
		Kamchatka is part of the Russian Kamchatka region (along with a part of the continent, the Komandorskie Islands[?] and Karaginski Island[?]).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ka/Kamchatka.html (831 words)

	Kamchatka - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		KAMCHATKA, a peninsula of N.-E. Siberia, stretching from the land of the Chukchis S.S.W. for 750 m., with a width of from 80 to 300 m.
		The south-eastern portion is occupied by a chain of volcanoes, running along the indented coast, from Cape Lopatka to Cape Kronotskiy (54° 25' N.), and separated from the rest of the peninsula by the valleys of the Bystraya (an affluent of the Bolstraya, on the west coast) and Kamchatka rivers.
		The principal Russian settlements are: Petropavlovsk, on the E. coast, on Avacha Bay, with an excellent roadstead; Verkhne-Kamchatsk and Nizhne-Kamchatsk in the valley of the Kamchatka river; Bolsheryetsk, on the Bolshaya; and Tighil, on the W. coast.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Kamchatka (928 words)

	Kamchatka Peninsula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian: полуо́стров Камча́тка) is a 1,250-kilometer long peninsula in the Russian Far East, with the area of 472,300 km².
		The Kamchatka Peninsula is a part of the Russian Kamchatka Oblast (along with a part of the continent, the Komandorskiye Islands and Karaginsky Island).
		The Kamchatka River and the surrounding Central Valley are flanked by large volcanic ranges, containing around 160 volcanoes, 29 of them still active.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kamchatka_Peninsula (699 words)

	What is Kamchatka -- WayToRussia.Net
		Kamchatka is known as the magic land of volcanoes and geysers.
		Kamchatka was closed for tourists for military reasons, since Russians explored it in the 17th century.
		Kamchatka is a peninsula at the north-east of Russia.
	www.waytorussia.net /FarEast/Kamchatka/Kamchatka.html (909 words)

	Information about Kamchatka peninsula, Russia
		One should not confuse Kamchatka with Siberia; this name is used for the peninsula itself and the closest part of the continent, including Karaginsky Island and the Komandorsky Archipelago.
		But the main attractions of Kamchatka are volcanic calderas, stone sculpture “parks” and lakes in craters, geysers and mineral springs, all in pristine condition.
		The main settlement of the peninsula and the capital of Kamchatka Region is the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
	www.travelkamchatka.com /kamchatka.htm (571 words)

	Kamchatka wildlife tours, eco tours and travel in Kamchatka in the Russian Far East.
		Kamchatka is located in the extreme east of the Asian continent at the very edge of the Russian Far East.
		In the west the Kamchatka peninsula is bordered by the Sea of Okhotsk, in the east it is bordered by the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea.
		A third of Kamchatka area is covered with forest, and the rest is lakes and rivers, low and alpine meadows.
	www.kamchatka.ru /~kambear/kamchatka.htm (784 words)

	Tour 6206. Flora of Kamchatka [Kamchatintour]
		Kamchatka is rich in willows, with 33 species of the genus Salix growing everywhere from sea level to the upper limit of vegetation at 1600-1800 m above sea level.
		The river lies in a vary wide floodplain and is framed on either side by impenetrable, mosquito-infested thickets of willow, such as Salix udensis.
		Esso settlement is situated in the approximate middle of the Kamchatka peninsula, 528 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
	www.kamchatintour.ru /tours/en/62.asp (1781 words)

	Kamchatka: Bountiful Breed
		Kamchatka is home to many natural wonders, including 26 active volcanoes, half the world's population of Steller's sea eagles, vast breeding grounds for waterfowl and shorebirds, and the largest population of brown bears on Earth.
		Kamchatka steelhead have declined dramatically since the 1970s, mostly as a result of illegal harvest in estuaries and lower river segments.
		The threats are especially alarming because the rivers affected-including the Bolshaya, Utka, Kukhchik and Opala-contain the greatest watershed level diversity of salmon, trout, and char stocks known.
	www.pbs.org /edens/kamchatka/bountiful.html (2777 words)

	Kamchatka - Agency VICAAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kamchatka, the Russian Far East peninsula, is one of the largest peninsulas on Earth (about the size of California) that juts down into the northwestern Pacific from Siberia between Alaska and Japan.
		Kamchatka is a special wild place, one of the least spoiled areas of wilderness on Earth.
		Kamchatka is a mountain country with 29 active and more then 200 extinct volcanoes, with hundreds of hot springs, crystal-clear lakes, streams and rivers.
	www.vicaar.spb.ru /kamchatka.htm (1839 words)

	"WILD RUSSIA" - adventure tours to Kamchatka. Information about Kamchatka. Maps.
		Bystraya river is situated in the central part of Kamchatka is the second longest river on the peninsula.
		Landing in the Karymsky river valley (5 km from the volcano).
		Rivers of the Islands are spawning grounds for Pacific salmon.
	www.wildrussia.spb.ru /WR/Kamchatka (2481 words)

	KAMCHATKA - ANGLER ADVENTURES
		The Kamchatka Peninsula is a vast area comprised of 104,000 square mile of largely unpopulated, pristine wilderness.
		Kamchatka characterized by dense coniferous forests, with snow-capped peaks to 15,000 feet, smoldering, active volcanoes and thousands of miles of pristine, unpolluted rivers.
		Kamchatka’s main attraction for the traveling angler is the remarkable rainbow trout fishery.
	www.angleradventures.com /ouzel (1259 words)

	Wild Salmon Rivers: Flyfishing in Russia
		In western Kamchatka, the preponderant form is anadromous mikizha of the stream maturing type; in North America the preponderant populations are of the ocean maturing type, which enter the river with mature gonads.
		Anadromous and freshwater mikizha are well distinguished by the position of the hyomandibular bone in relation to the flat surface of the bone and the form of the canals on the dorsal surface of the ethmoid section of the chondrocranium.
		By the level of genetic diversity and polymorphic protein loci it is possible to separate eastern Kamchatkan mikizha (from the basin of the largest river in Kamchatka) and western Kamchatkan populations.
	www.steelhead.org /report.php (1566 words)

	Kamchatka Bear Ltd. - Wildlife tours, eco tours and travel in Kamchatka in the Russian Far East
		Verkhnegolyginsky Tourist Area is situated in the wilderness in the south of the peninsula 125 miles south of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (the administrative center of Kamchatka), 18.7 miles west of the Pacific Ocean, and 50 miles east of the Sea of Okhotsk.
		There are 4 volcanoes on the border of the hunting ground, 5 lakes; 8 rivers that are rich spawning grounds for char trout and salmon (sockeye, silver, chum, and pink); lots of mountain streams; and hot springs in the caldera of the Ksudach Volcano and on the Left Unkanovich River.
		Kamchatka's flora is well represented in the area, including a number of endemic plants like trailing cedar, stone birch, and Kamchatka rhododendron.
	www.kamchatka.ru /~kambear/tourist_area.htm (1111 words)

	Kamchatka
		Kamchatka peninsula extends southwest from the mainland for a distance of about 1207 km (about 750 mi), separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
		The autonomous okrug of Koryakia, occupying the northern section of the peninsula, and the Komandorskiye Islands, situated in the Bering Sea, are attached to the Kamchatka Oblast for administrative purposes.
		K.S. Situated in the north part of the Pacific chain of volcanic activity and on the center of Kamchatka peninsula, Klyuchevskaya Sopka is the highest active volcano on the territory of Europe-Asia.
	www.mountainguides.ru /kamchatka (385 words)

	Fly Fishing - Travel Destinations
		Kamchatka has been called one of the last great tracts of unspoiled wilderness left in the world.
		Kamchatka's pristine, clear streams, magnificent birch forests and smoking volcanoes were locked up tight behind the Soviet's iron curtain.
		Because Kamchatka is further south than Alaska with warmer weather patterns, the riverine insect life is extensive and includes mayflies, caddis flies and stoneflies.
	www.gorsuch-outfitters.com /destinations/kamchatka-river.htm (1122 words)

	Washington Trout: Preserve, Protect, Restore
		Kamchatka’s natural wonders include 26 active volcanoes, half the world’s population of Stellar’s sea eagle, and a population of 5,000 to 10,000 of the largest brown/grizzly bears known, with some large males weighing over 1000 pounds.
		The west coast of the peninsula and its rivers are particularly pristine.
		The Krutogorova displayed a wide array of complex river/floodplain dynamics in which the presence of large wood on the floodplain, along the edge of the river, and in the river, was fundamental in creating and maintaining complex floodplain habitats.
	www.washingtontrout.org /kamchatka.shtml (3709 words)

	Kamchatka / Adventure / Mountain.RU
		And on the same Kamchatka you can meet the people from New Caledonia, which have done a way through a half of the world to get in a place of their dream.
		Kamchatka is the territory of woods, rivers, lakes, bogs, mountains, glaciers, boiling sources and, certainly, volcanoes.
		On the same bank of the Kamchatka River there is volcano Shiveluch, one of the most "ominous" and active volcanoes of Kamchatka.
	www.mountain.ru /eng/adventure/2004/Kamchatka (1186 words)

	The airsurveys of large birds of prey at Kamchatka: successes, failure and perspective А
		Features of SSE nestling on Kamchatka, where their nests are authentic less, than on a continental part of breeding area, and allocate in a dense part of crown, that make quite difficalt their recognition both from the helicopter, and from the ground.
		This is the area of western Kamchatka from the river Vorovskaya to the north and north-eastern part of Kamchatka from the line between the river Tigil and river Ozernaja.
		Kamchatka river basin has a low density of eagle population due to high level of different kinds of human activity.
	fadr.msu.ru /eagle (3757 words)

	Informational Essays about Kamchatka
		Kamchatka is a land of rivers; more than 40,000 watercourses branch like capillaries into every nook of the peninsula’s extending arm.
		Expanding funnel like from a narrow valley near the village of Pushchino, the massive Kamchatka River drainage basin is the geographical and cultural heart of the peninsula.
		In the beginning of the 18th century when Russians first began to explore Kamchatka’s interior they recorded 160 native settlements, each with a population of 150 to 200 people, between the mouth of the Kamchatka River and its confluence with the Yelovka River (near present day Klyuchi).
	www.avachabay.com /factpages/fact2.htm (394 words)

	Kamchatka tourism and visitors guide for the Kamchatka Peninsula
		Kamchatka’s people are tied to the sea, to seasonal fishing, and related industries.
		The village of Ust-Kamchatsk at the mouth of the Kamchatka River is where Vitus Bering and Alexey Chirikov built their packet boats for the 2nd Kamchatka Expedition.
		North along the road and across the Kamchatka River is the village of Kozirevsk.
	www.kamchatkatourism.com /plan-uproad.htm (1607 words)

	Kamchatka River Adventure
		Transfer to the valley of the Kamchatka River to Milkovo village (308 km), the start point for rafting down the Kamchatka River, the largest one of the peninsular.
		During the rafting down calm and picturesque river you can watch wild birds and animals, make brief stops in interesting places and enjoy the beauty of wild nature.
		Transfer from the fisher men's camp "Gorny kluch" on the Kamchatka River bank to the village of Esso (90 km) - the centre of the Bystrinsky district, where the national minorities, the Evens live.
	www.kamchatkatravel.net /eng/tours/river.shtml (474 words)

	FISHING AND RAFTING (KAM-08) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bystraya river is on the west coast of Kamchatka.
		In July and August the river is teeming with pink salmon and dog salmon.
		The rafting route length is 50 km in the middle current of the river, 100 km from its mouth.
	kamchatka.al.ru /KAM08.shtml (407 words)

	Kamchatka peninsula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kamchatka peninsula is a unique ecological museum under the open sky.
		Vegetation of Kamchatka peninsula is rich and varied due to the influence of several climate zones and volcanic activity.
		Welcome to Kamchatka, a peninsula in the Russian Far East along the Pacific Ring of Fire, a chain of volcanoes arching from Japan, to Kamchatka, and Alaska.
	kamchatka.in-russia.com (442 words)

	Kamchatka's thermal hot springs
		It is on the left side of Bannaya river and has 24 groups on the thermal square (1,5 km.) It has more than 550 boiling, seetheing, fountaining sometimes with geysers focused at the outlets of thermal water, and also has mud boilers.
		Verchne-Paratunski thermal hot springs are in the valley of Paratunka river, in 2,5 km higher from falling in it Karimshino river.
		Valley of river is 0,4-0,5km in wide and both sides are limited with elevates covered with stone-birch forest.
	www.kamchatka.org.ru /thermal.html (1271 words)

	Wikinfo \| Kamchatka
		Kamchatka (Камчатка) Oblast is a 1,250-kilometer-long peninsula in the Russian far east, with an area of 472,300 km².
		The highest is Klyuchevskaya Sopka (4,575 m or 15,584 ft), while the most striking and recognized are the 3 volcanoes seen from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: Koryaksky, Avachinsky, and Kozelsky.
		The founding of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in 1740 by the Danish explorer Vitus Bering began the "opening" of Kamchatka in earnest, helped by the fact that the government began to use the area as a place of exile.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Kamchatka (948 words)

	Fishing and fly fishing trip in Kamchatka. Fishing King Salmon, Silver Salmon, Chum Salmon
		The Bystraya river is located in the central part of the Kamchatka peninsula, at its western coast.
		This river is one of the most accessible and interesting to fishing trip and rafting trip.
		On the river there are a lot of comfortable places for fishing, with deep and wide holes where the fish going on spawning has a rest.
	www.kamchatka.org.ru /salmon.html (419 words)

	Ultimate Rivers \| Premier Sportfishing Adventures SW Alaska & Kamchatka, Russia & Beyond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ultimate Rivers for 2007 will continue its association with one of the most experienced local tour operators (The Climb, Ltd.) to offer superb, "Russian style" float and tent camp fishing expeditions on the finest streams in southern and central Kamchatka.
		A former strategic submarine base for the Soviet military during the Cold War, Kamchatka was off limits to everyone until the early '90's, and we are honored to be one of the few American operators offering legitimate floatfishing programs there.
		The program for all the Kamchatka river trips remains essentially the same: We join our West Coast guests in Anchorage for an early morning departure on a short (3-4 hour) jet flight across the Aleutians to Petropavlosk, gateway city and capital of Kamchatka.
	www.ultimaterivers.com /kamchatka/default_replace.asp (385 words)

	Adventure Trek to Central Kamchatka (Bezymyanny, Zimina, Tolbachik volcanoes)
		This day we cross the Kamchatka river by ferry and then take a forest track for some 36 km (appx 3 hrs) to Kopyto mountain, the starting point of our trekking route.
		Trek 5 hours to Studenaya river camp which we cross the next morning when the river is not rapid yet (15 km).
		Our way is along the river that goes between the ancient lava flows and we keep going slightly up on the area.
	www.kamchatkatracks.com /tours/t113.htm (821 words)

	Kamchatka Tours. Rafting on the rivers of Kamchatka
		Both beginners and experienced sportsmen are interested in rafting along Kamchatka rivers, as there is a wide variety of routes according to difficulty and remoteness from any settlement.
		Levaya Shapina river springs from the spurs of the Eastern ridge, runs in the central part of Kamchatka among century-old fur-trees and larch.
		On the river there is a long piece with rapids of the highest category of difficulty.
	omega-tours.ru /htm/eng/tour9.htm (719 words)

	NPR : Fishing for Science in Kamchatka
		There are only a few rivers left that haven't been altered by dams, irrigation projects and hatcheries, and there's little memory of what these places once looked like and how they worked.
		There, on the Kamchatka Peninsula, fishermen and scientists are trying to understand and protect one of the world's last remaining strongholds of wild salmon, steelhead and char.
		The river has nine species of salmonids, and scientists are studying the life history of each and how they intermingle and relate to particular environments.
	www.npr.org /programs/re/archivesdate/2003/jan/kamchatka/index.html (1018 words)

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