Just as fenders crumple during a car wreck, so the Kamchatka Peninsula surface is buckling with mountain ranges.

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If it were possible to open a Gulfstream cabin door in flight, I might have been ejected over the Kamchatka Peninsula.

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It is Kamchatka, or more specifically volcanic activity in the Kamchatka Peninsula.

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In fact, PANGAEA had just arrived in Annapolis after completing a traverse of the Northwest Passage from the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, and is on her way to Florida to explore the Everglades before an expedition next year far up the Amazon River.

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It said a volcanological station had registered numerous explosions at the Bezymyannyvolcano, located in the central part of Kamchatka peninsula.

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If that large patch of atmosphere were over Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, or some other remote but volcanic region, the uncertainty would not be so bad, as it could, at a price, simply be skirted round.

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