Peninsula

Kamchatka Peninsula

Kamchatka lies on the Ring of Fire, the belt of plate boundaries around the Pacific where earthquakes and eruptions concentrate rather than striking at random.

Source: usgs.gov

Where it is

On the Atlas Quest map, the Kamchatka Peninsula label sits at 56.6° N, 159.9° E, in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres.

Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.

Nearby places

The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:

• Bering Sea — about 1,800 km east
• Aleutian Islands — about 2,100 km east
• Denali — about 2,800 km north-east
• Arctic Ocean — about 3,300 km north

Play with it

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