KRONOTSKY KRASHENINNIKOV
Location: 54.7 N, 160.7 E 54.6 N, 160.6 E
Summit Height: 3528 m 1857 m
This excellent Space Shuttle photograph shows a number of volcanic structures
along the shore of the Pacific Ocean on the Kamchatka peninsula of Russia.
This peninsula includes many active volcanoes, but was off-limits to foreign
scientists until after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The two major
volcanoes shown here are Kronotsky, the shadow casting stratovolcano, and
Kransheninnikov, a 9 x 10 km diameter caldera. Inside the caldera are younger
and smaller volcanic calderas. Although volcanic gases escape from these
volcanoes, there have only been two small eruptions from Kronotsky in 1922
and 1923. The triangular shaped black body is Lake Kronotsky. Can you find
Kamchatka and this lake on an atlas?
From Shuttle Mission (STS-042-02932)
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