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Kruzof Island
Kruzof Island, also historically Ostrov Tlikh, San Jacinto, and Crooze Island, is a 23-mile-long island in Alaska's Alexander Archipelago about 13 miles west of Sitka, dominated by the dormant 3,200-foot volcano Mount Edgecumbe and mostly Tongass National Forest land.
Kugong Island
Kugong Island, an uninhabited island in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, also known in Eastern Canadian Inuktitut; the westernmost member of the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay, about 321 km² and 54 km long, with 15 m base elevation, Belcher Group geology, and significant seabird and polar bear habitat.
Kuh-e Bandaka (Tirgaran)
Kuh-e Bandaka (Tirgaran, کوه بندکا) is a 6,812 m ultra-prominent Hindu Kush peak in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, the country's third highest; first climbed in 1960 by a West Berlin expedition via the west ridge.
Kuh-e Chuk Shakh
Kuh-e Chuk Shakh (کوه چوک شاخ), also romanized Kōh-e Chūk Shākh, is a 5,467 m ultra-prominent Hindu Kush mountain in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, near Ishkashim, with about 2,444 m prominence and no recorded ascents.
Kuh-e Dinar
Kuh-e Dinar (کوه دینار), a Zagros mountain in Isfahan, Iran, about 4,182–4,409 m high, uplifted on the Dinar thrust of the High Zagros fault; distinct from smaller same-named mountains in Ilam and Kerman.
Kuh-e Fareghan
Kuh-e Fareghan (Kūh-e Fāreghān, Homag/Hemag) is a 3,240 m ultra-prominence peak in Hormozgan, Iran, the highest point of the Southern Zagros, with 2,082 m prominence; the surrounding range holds 52 named peaks up to 3,250 m.
Kuh-e Genu
Kuh-e Genu (کوه گنو) is the name of two mountains in southern Iran: a 2,540 m peak in Kerman Province and an isolated 2,350 m massif in Hormozgan Province.
Kuh-e Hami
Kuh-e Hami, also rendered Kūh-e Hāmī, is an ultra-prominent mountain in the Zagros Mountains of southwestern Iran, standing about 3,200 meters above sea level in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province.
Kuh-e Hazar
Kuh-e Hazar (کوه هزار, Kūh-e Hezār), also Hazaran or Hezar, is an ultra-prominent 4,465-4,501 m massif in Kerman Province, southeastern Iran, the highest peak outside the Alborz, in the Sahand-Bazman volcanic belt near Rayen.
Kuh-e Jang Qal'eh
Kuh-e Jang Qal'eh (کوه جنگ قلعه), also Kōh-e Jang Qal'ah, is a mountain in Pur Chaman District, Farah Province, Afghanistan; listed at 4,171 m with 1,476 m prominence and 258 km isolation in the Central Afghanistan Ranges.
Kuh-e Nay Band
Kuh-e Nay Band (کوه نای بند), Nayband, is a 2,960 m ultra-prominent peak in South Khorasan Province, Iran, the province's highest point and namesake of the Triassic Nayband Formation and Nayband fault.
Kuh-e Shab
Kuh-e Shab (کوه شب), also Hormoz or Kūh-i-Hormuz, a mountain and range in Iran's Southern Zagros near Fars/Hormozgan; highest summit Kuh-e Show 2,681 m, an ultra-prominent peak with 2,100 m prominence.
Kuh-e Shahvar
Kuh-e Shahvar (كوهِ شاهوار, Kūh-e Shāhvār) is a high Alborz mountain in Shahrud County, Semnan Province, Iran, near 36.58 N, 54.76 E; published elevations run 3,670 to 3,945 m, with 1,923 m prominence, an Iranian Ultra peak.
Kuh-e Siah Khvani
Kuh-e Siah Khvani (کوه سیاه خوانی), also recorded as Shirbad, is the highest summit of the Binalood range near Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran; reported elevations range from 2,682 to 3,314 m.
Kuh-e Taftan
Kuh-e Taftan (تفتان), also Koh-i Taftan, is a 3,940 m eroded andesitic stratovolcano in Sistan and Baluchestan, southeastern Iran, on the Makran arc; Pleistocene last eruption, persistent fumaroles, and 2023–2024 summit uplift unrest.
Kuh-e Zendan
Kuh-e Zendan (کوه زندان, "Prison Mountain") names several separate Iranian mountains: an 855 m peak in Hormozgan, a 1,805 m mountain and a 2,011 m volcano in West Azerbaijan, and a 1,025 m mountain in Kerman Province.
Kuh-e-Sabalaan
Kuh-e-Sabalaan (Sabalan, Savalan, سبلان) is a 4,811 m stratovolcano in Ardabil province, NW Iran, Iran's third-highest peak, with a summit caldera, frozen crater lake, seven glaciers, and hot-spring spa towns on its slopes.
Kuh-i Belandtarin
Kuh-i Belandtarin (کوه بلندترین), also Koh-e Helal, is a 6,286 m ultra prominent peak in Wakhan District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan, in the Pamir; first ascent 7 August 1971 by Italians, prominence 2,008 m, col 4,278 m.
Kuhn Ø
Kuhn Ø (Kuhn Island) is a 634 km² island in Hochstetter Bay, East Greenland, named by Koldewey's 1869–70 expedition after Austrian war minister Franz Kuhn; noted for Jurassic coal-bearing strata and half-graben geology.
Kuhrud Mountains
The Kuhrud Mountains, also spelled Kohrud or Qohrud, are a mountain range in central Iran northeast of Esfahan, one of the parallel ranges of the Iranian Plateau.
Kuiu Island
Kuiu Island, an island of the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest, about 750 square miles (1,900 km2), between Chatham and Sumner Straits, sparsely inhabited, with Tebenkof Bay archaeology and the Kuiu Tlingit.
Kukak
Kukak Volcano is an almost completely ice-covered stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park, west of Hallo Bay and known for vigorous fumaroles.
Kumtor Gold Mine
The Kumtor Gold Mine is a gold mine in the Tien Shan mountains of eastern Kyrgyzstan, opened in 1997 and nationalized by the Kyrgyz government in 2021.
Kunashir (国後島)
Kunashir (Кунашир; 国後島, Kunashiri-tō), southernmost Greater Kuril island, Russian-administered but claimed by Japan as a Northern Territory; volcanic, forested, home to Kurilskiy Nature Reserve and Tyatya volcano (1,822 m).
Kunlun Mountains (昆仑山脉)
Kunlun Mountains (昆仑山脉), also Kuen-lun, form the ~2,500 km northern wall of the Tibetan Plateau between the Tarim Basin and northwest Tibet, rising to 7,719 m, with a long-lived Triassic orogen, the 1,600 km Kunlun Fault, and major glaciers.
Kunta Kinteh Island
Kunta Kinteh Island, formerly James Island, is a small fortified island in the Gambia River about 30 km from its mouth, core of a 2003 UNESCO World Heritage serial property tied to the start and abolition of the Atlantic slave trade.
Kupreanof
Mount Kupreanof, a 1,895 m eroded stratovolcano in the Stepovak Bay group on the Alaska Peninsula, has no confirmed historical eruptions but persistent fumaroles and a 2026 magmatic-intrusion unrest episode.
Kupreanof Island
Kupreanof Island is a large island in the Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska, within Tongass National Forest, about 90 by 45 km with elevations near 1,200 m; distinct from Kupreanof Strait, Kupreanof Point, and Mount Kupreanof volcano.
Kuril Islands (Курильские острова)
Kuril Islands (Курильские острова, Chishima Rettō): volcanic chain of about 56 islands between Hokkaido and Kamchatka, Russian-administered since 1945; Japan claims the four southern islands as the Northern Territories, blocking a WWII peace treaty.
Kusatsu-Shiranesan
Kusatsu-Shiranesan (草津白根山), also called Mount Kusatsu-Shirane, is a 2,165 m active stratovolcano in Gunma, Japan, with three pyroclastic cones and acidic crater lakes; its phreatic eruptions include the deadly 23 January 2018 Motoshirane explosion.