Kamchatka, a long narrow peninsula on the E. coast of Siberia, stretching southwards between the Behring Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk, with a precipitous coast and a volcanic range of mountains down the centre, has a cold, wet climate, grass and tree vegetation, and many hot springs; the people live by fishing, hunting, and trading in furs; they are Russianised, the peninsula having been Russian since the 17th century.
Population (circa 1900) given as 7,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kâma * Kames, Henry Home, Lord