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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Kamchatka . - noun A native or inhabitant of
Kamchatka .
Etymologies
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday issued a notice to pilots that they should remain alert for possible ash clouds, saying emissions have "intermittently complicated air travel" in the area of the Kamchatkan Peninsula.
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Kamchatkan larch and ayan spruce are dominant on the eastern slopes; stone birch dominates the west slopes.
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Yet another cannibalism story from Russia: Kamchatkan man accused of eating local long pig.
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Yet another cannibalism story from Russia: Kamchatkan man accused of eating local long pig.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Another Russian cannibalism incident 2008
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There are isolated groves of the rare endemic Kamchatkan fir Abies gracilis, also Sakhalin fir Abies sachalinensis, unusual thermally influenced caldera communities and several nationally threatened plants such as Cypripedium macranthon, Carex viridula, Fimbristylis ochotensis, Isoetes asiatica, Poa radula and Rhodiola rosea.
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Just got this remarkable photo from Vladimir Beregovoy of a Kamchatkan feeding some very polite dogs slices of seal meat.
Archive 2006-04-01 2006
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Just got this remarkable photo from Vladimir Beregovoy of a Kamchatkan feeding some very polite dogs slices of seal meat.
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A year later, dressed as a Kamchatkan, he was presented to Louis XVI at Versailles, having traveled the entire distance across Siberia to St. Petersburg, mostly by dog sled, then on to Paris.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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A year later, dressed as a Kamchatkan, he was presented to Louis XVI at Versailles, having traveled the entire distance across Siberia to St. Petersburg, mostly by dog sled, then on to Paris.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Like the other Pacific salmon, the second part of the name comes from a Russian transliteration of a Kamchatkan language word.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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