Klyuchevskaya Sopka is the highest mountain on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, and the highest volcano in Kamchatka. The volcano's steep, symmetrical cone towers are a mere 100 km (60 miles) from the Bering Sea. Klyuchevskaya's first recorded eruption was in 1697, and it has been almost continuously active ever since, as have many of its neighboring volcanoes. Klyuchevskaya last erupted in 1995.
First climbed in 1788 by Daniel Gauss and two other members of the Billings Expedition. No other ascents were then recorded until 1931, when several climbers were killed by flying lava on the descent. As similar dangers still exist today, few ascents are made.
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Klyuchevskaya on Peakware (http://www.peakware.com/encyclopedia/peaks/klyuchevskaya.htm) - photos
This is an image of the area of Kliuchevskoivolcano, Kamchatka, Russia, which began to erupt on September 30, 1994.
Kliuchevskoi is the blue triangular peak in the center of the image, towards the left edge of the bright red area that delineates bare snow cover.
The image was acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) aboard the space shuttle Endeavour on its 88th orbit on October 5, 1994.
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