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Volcanoes of Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands

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Alney-Chashakondzha

Alney-Chashakondzha (Алней-Чашаконджa), volcano 300450, is a glacier-capped twin stratovolcano complex in Kamchatka's Sredinny Range: Alney 2,598 m and Chashakondzha 2,526 m on a Pliocene shield, Holocene-active, last eruption 1600 CE.

Gamchen

Gamchen (Вулкан Гамчен, Sopka Khamchenskaya) is a complex of four stratovolcanoes in Kamchatka's Eastern Volcanic Arc, 2,539 m high, last erupting 188 BCE (VEI 3), with fumaroles and a UNESCO setting.

Kamen

Kamen (Kamchatka volcano), a dormant 4,585 m stratovolcano in the Klyuchevskaya group between Klyuchevskoy, Bezymianny, and Ploskie Sopky; late Pleistocene edifice, no Holocene eruptions, eastern sector collapse 1,200-1,300 years ago.

Mutnovsky

Mutnovsky (Мутновский) is an active basaltic complex volcano of four coalescing stratovolcanoes in southern Kamchatka, Russia, 70–80 km southwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, with frequent phreatic eruptions, a 2000 VEI 2 event, and a geothermal power plant on its slopes.

Severny

Severny (volcano 300700) is a late Quaternary shield volcano, 1,936 m, in the northern Sredinny Range of central Kamchatka, Russia; last confirmed eruption 1550 BCE from the Tobeltsen cinder cone on its WSW flank.

Tolbachik

Tolbachik (Tolbachik volcanic massif) is a basaltic volcano at the southern end of the Klyuchevskoy group, Kamchatka, Russia, made of Ostry and Plosky Tolbachik stratovolcanoes and the Tolbachinsky Dol cone field; site of the 1975–76 Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption and the 2012–13 fissure eruption.

Udina

Udina (Bolshaya and Malaya Udina) is a pair of Holocene stratovolcanoes at the south end of Kamchatka's Kliuchevskaya group, Russia, with no known Holocene eruptions but seismic unrest in 2017-2019 suggesting possible magmatic reawakening.

Ushkovsky

Ushkovsky (formerly Plosky) is a 3,943 m compound volcano at the NW end of Kamchatka's Kliuchevskaya group, with an ice-filled 4.5 x 5.5 km caldera and last eruption in 1890 CE.

Zhupanovsky

Zhupanovsky (Жупановский вулкан, Vakhilskaya Sopka) is a four-cone compound stratovolcano on Kamchatka, Russia, 2,899 m, last erupting 2013-2017 from the Priemysh cone.

Zimina

Zimina (Зимина) is an extinct volcanic massif of merged stratovolcanoes, 3,057-3,081 m, at the southeastern end of the Klyuchevskaya volcano group in Kamchatka, Russia; no Holocene eruptions are known.