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WT PETROPAVLOSK, KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA

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October 10th 2010
kamchatka petropavlosk, russia We arrived in Kamchatka after a fuel stop in Anchorage on 10/3 after crossing the international date line and loosing a day. This is erraneously referred often as Siberia but only constitutes part of the peninsula. It has more than 160 volcanoes , 29 of them active which create more than 20 climate zones. I only experienced the cold ones there. The harbour of Pe ... read more

Europe » Russia » Far East » Kamchatka

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more