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4 unusual facts about Kamchatka River


First Kamchatka Expedition

After wintering in Okhotsk it moved to the mouth of the Kamchatka River on the east coast of the peninsula.

Johann Julius Walbaum

He was the first to describe many previously unknown species from remote parts of the globe, such as the Great Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), the Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) from the Kamchatka River in Siberia, and the curimatá-pacú (Prochilodus marggravii) from the São Francisco River in Brazil.

Pyotr Krenitsyn

On July 4, 1770, Krenitsyn drowned in the Kamchatka River and Levashev assumed command of the Russian expeditionary fleet.

Volcanoes of Kamchatka

The Kamchatka River and the surrounding central side valley are flanked by large volcanic belts containing around 160 volcanoes, 29 of them still active.



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