Kurile Lake


Kurile Lake,

crater lake, 29 sq mi (76 sq km), 130 mi (209 km) SSW of Petropavlovsk, Russia, near the tip of the KamchatkaKamchatka
, peninsula, 104,200 sq mi (269,878 sq km), Kamchatka Territory, Russian Far East, separating the Sea of Okhotsk in the west from the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean in the east. Extending from lat. 51°N to lat.
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 Peninsula. Located in a rugged volcanic region and lying some 330 ft (100 m) above sea level, the lake has two basins separated by an underwater ridge; the deeper southern basin has a maximum depth of more than 1,000 ft (300 m), making Kurile Lake the second-deepest lake in Russia. There are lava domes and pyroclastic cones in the lake. The Kurile Lake caldera first formed in an eruption some 41,500 years ago, and a large eruption some 7,600 years ago created the present-day crater. Over thousands of years, as nearby volcanoes erupted and new ones formed, the surface of the lake has risen and fallen; at its highest it was 820 ft (250 m) above sea level.