KAMCHATKA PENINSULAR: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 23 October 2021

KAMCHATKA PENINSULAR

An ‘ecological disaster’ of sorts is unfolding on a black volcanic beach of the Kamchatka peninsular in Russian for East, according to a report.

• The Kamchatka Peninsula is 1250 kilometre long peninsula in the Russain For East.
• The pacific ocean and the sea of okhotsk make up the peninsula’s eastern and western coastlines, respectively.
• Immediately offshore along the Pacific coast of the peninsula runs the 10,500 metre deep kuril-kamchatka Trench.
• The kanichatka Peninsula, the commander islands, and karaginsky island constitute the kamchatka krai of the Russain Federation.
• The vast majority of the 322,079 inhabitants are ethnic Russains, although about 13000 are koryaks (2014).
• The kamchatka peninsula contains the volcanoes of kamchutka, a UNESCO world Heritage site.