The Volcanoes of the Russian Peninsula of Kamchatka

This card is exceptional in my opinion. It is one of the most beautiful that I have. I think it is hard to take such a gorgeous photo and when you think this is not in a very easy to rich place. It is a Kamchatka Volcano card. The volcanoes of the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. There are 160 volcanoes, from this 29 are still active and six of them are in the UNESCO list. The highest volcano is Klyuchevskaya Sopka (4,750 m) and it is also the largest active volcano located in the Northern Hemisphere. These volcanic features are the site of occurrence of certain extremophile micro-organisms, which are capable of surviving in extremely hot environments. In 1952 was recorded an 8.2 magnitude earthquake, owing that to the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench. Those volcanoes are hard to rich but you can see some of them from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The city has developed a tourist infrastructure, the remarkable scenery attracts tourists even though it is expensive and hard to rich (no land connection exists, the only way to arrive is using airplane). Bear hunting and paragliding are some other things you can do there.

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