Notable Volcanoes Posters “K...-”
for science & social studies classrooms, home schoolers, offices.

The Kamchatka Peninsula, in the Russian Far East between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk, is made up of many sizable volcanoes - Kamen, Klychevskoy, Koryaksky, Krashnninnikov, Kronotski.

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Koryaksky is a conical volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Siberia, Russia. It is part of the Volcanoes of Kamchatka UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996.

Katmai, a large stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula located within Katmai National Park and Preserve, an part of the 1912 Novarupta (New Eruption).

Kilauea is a very active volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, one of five shield volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaii (Kohala, extinct; Mauna Kea and Hualalai, dormant; Mauna Loa, active).

In the Hawaiian language kilauea means "spewing" or "much spreading".

Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Africa

Kilimanjaro (Kilima Njaro - Swahili for “shining mountain”), the tallest free-standing mountain rise in the world, is a currently inactive stratovolcano; there are concerns about magma build-up and rapidly retreating glaciers near the summit.

Kimanura, Parc de Volcanos, Virunga Mountains, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Krakatau & Tambora are two volcanoes in the volcano rich Indonesian archipelago.

The most deadly eruption of a volcano in historical records occured at Tambora in April of 1815. Tambora is also credited with altering the global climate, making the year 1816 known as the “Year Without a Summer” in the Northern Hemisphere.

FYI ~ The bad weather in Europe is responsible for a group of writers to hibernate during their summer holiday and challenge one another to write the scariest story - the result was Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.