Landforms and terrestrial features

Kodiak Archipelago

Kodiak Archipelago: island group in the Gulf of Alaska 30 miles from mainland Alaska across Shelikof Strait; main islands Kodiak, Afognak, Shuyak; home of Kodiak brown bear, Alutiiq Sugpiaq people, and Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge.

Kodiak Island

Kodiak Island, largest island in Alaska and second largest in the U.S., part of the Kodiak Archipelago; home of the Alutiiq people for 7,800+ years, first capital of Russian America, and center of a fishing economy with Kodiak brown bears.

Kohistan, Pakistan

Kohistan (کوہستان) is a mountainous region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan, along the Indus River, now divided into Upper Kohistan, Lower Kohistan, and Kolai Palas districts.

Kokoda Track

The Kokoda Track, also called the Kokoda Trail, is a foot track across Papua New Guinea's Owen Stanley Range, from Port Moresby to the village of Kokoda.

Kola Peninsula (Кольский полуостров)

Kola Peninsula (Кольский полуостров), Russian Arctic peninsula between the Barents and White Seas in Murmansk Oblast; ice-free Murman coast, apatite and nickel mining, Murmansk port, and major naval nuclear bases.

Kolguyev Island

Ostrov Kolguyev (Колгуев, formerly Kholgola) is a Russian Arctic island in the southeastern Barents Sea, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, northeast of the Kanin Peninsula: tundra island of about 5,200 km², Nenets population in Bugrino, oil production since the 1980s, and a 2013–2014 reindeer collapse from over 12,000 to 153 animals.

Kolli Hills (கொல்லிமலை)

Kolli Hills (Kollimalai), a plateau in the Eastern Ghats of Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu, India, at about 1,200–1,300 m; known for evergreen shola forests, Agaya Gangai falls, black pepper, and Sangam-era chieftain Valvil Ori.

Kolombangara Island

Kolombangara Island (Nduke), Solomon Islands: a near-circular extinct Pleistocene stratovolcano in Western Province, about 30 km across, 1,760 m high, with a 20,000 ha protected area above 400 m and endemic birds.

Kolyma Lowland

The Kolyma Lowland (Колымская низменность) is a vast permafrost-covered coastal lowland in northeastern Siberia, Russia, between the Indigirka and Kolyma rivers, a principal repository of ice-rich Yedoma deposits.

Komarov

Komarov: a dormant stratovolcano (2,065–2,070 m) on the Gamchen ridge, Kamchatka, last erupting around 950 CE, and an 80.43-km lunar crater named for cosmonaut Vladimir M. Komarov.

Komodo (island)

Komodo is a volcanic island in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, between Sumbawa and Flores. It is the largest island of Komodo National Park and best known for the Komodo dragon.

Komsomolets Island

Komsomolets Island (остров Комсомолец) is the northernmost island of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Russian Arctic, discovered in 1913 and covering about 9,000 km².

Kongur Shan

Kongur Shan (Kongur Tagh, Gongge'er Feng), highest peak of the Pamirs in Xinjiang, China; 7,649 or 7,719 m, prominence 3,585 m; first climbed 12 July 1981 by Bonington, Boardman, Rouse, and Tasker.

Konkan (कोकण)

Konkan (कोकण) is the narrow coastal lowland of western India between the Arabian Sea and the Sahyadri range, about 50 km wide, with a 720 km Maharashtra coastline, west-flowing rivers, Deccan basalt and laterite, and historic ports such as Chaul, Dabhol, and Vengurla.

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Koonalda Cave

Koonalda Cave is a limestone cave on South Australia's Nullarbor Plain, holding Pleistocene Aboriginal finger flutings and flint mining evidence from about 31,000 to 15,000 years ago.

Kootenay Mtn.

Kootenay Mtn. (Kootenay Mountains), CGNDB key JCWDE, a previously official mountain name in Kootenay Land District, British Columbia, at 49°14′27″N 116°49′21″W, NTS 082F02, decision date 1955-10-06.

Kootenays

The Kootenays are a region of mountains, rivers, and long narrow lakes in southeast British Columbia, Canada, named for the Kootenay River, named after the Ktunaxa First Nation.

Kopet Dag

Kopet Dag, also called the Turkmen-Khorasan Mountain Range, is a mountain range on the Turkmenistan–Iran border, extending about 650 km southeast of the Caspian Sea.

Koryak Mountains

Koryak Mountains (Koryak Highlands, Корякское нагорье), mountain ranges in far northeastern Russia near the Bering Sea; highest point Ledyanaya Mountain, 2,562 m; accreted terranes, limited glaciers, and Mw 6.4 2020 earthquake.

Koryaksky

Koryaksky (Koryakskii, Корякский вулкан) is a 3,456 m basaltic-andesite stratovolcano in the Avacha group, Kamchatka, near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky; about 60 Holocene eruptions, historical activity in 1895, 1926, 1956–57, and a 2008–2009 activation.

Kos (Κως)

Kos (Κως, Cos), a Greek island in the southeastern Aegean and third largest of the Dodecanese (290.3 sq km), birthplace of Hippocrates, site of the ancient Asklepieion, ruled by Knights, Ottomans, and Italy, united with Greece in 1948.

Kosciusko Island

Kosciusko Island (Wyspa Kościuszki), an island in the Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska, near northwest Prince of Wales Island across El Capitan Passage; coordinates 56.04°N 133.54°W, elevation about 1,096 feet, Silurian geology, Tongass and Alaska DNR management.

Kotelny

Kotelny (Ostrov Kotelny) is a large island in the Anzhu subgroup of the New Siberian Islands in the Russian Arctic, first sighted in 1773 and home to Temp air base.

Koussi, Emi

Emi Koussi (Emi Koussou) is a 3,415 m pyroclastic shield volcano at the SE end of Chad's Tibesti Range, the highest summit of the Sahara, with nested 12 x 15 km summit calderas, the Era Kohor salt pan, no historical eruptions, and Holocene-credible status.

Koyo Zom

Koyo Zom (کویو زوم), 6,872 m, is the highest peak of Pakistan's Hindu Raj range between the Hindu Kush and Karakoram; first climbed 1968 by Austrians, third ascent 2019 via the northwest face.

Kra Isthmus

Kra Isthmus (Isthmus of Kra), narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula in southern Thailand, 44 km wide between Ranong and Chumphon; subject of a never-built canal proposal since 1677 and Thailand's 2021 land bridge project.

Krishna's Butterball (வான் இறை கல்)

Krishna's Butterball (Vaan Irai Kal) is a roughly 250-ton natural granite boulder balanced on a slope at Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, within the UNESCO Pallava monument group, held stable by center of gravity, friction, and erosion history.

Krk

Otok Krk (Krk Island, locally Bodulija) is a Croatian island in the Kvarner Gulf, linked to the mainland by bridge, with Roman, Byzantine, Frankopan, and Venetian heritage and a tourism-led economy.

Kronotsky

Kronotsky Volcano (Кроноцкая сопка), the "Fuji of Kamchatka," is a 3,482 m basaltic stratovolcano on Kamchatka's Pacific coast, the Eastern Volcanic Front's largest edifice, with extremely low-K tholeiitic lavas and Holocene eruptions dated by tephra.