Once Again About the Area of Kamchatka

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The conducted analysis of the geographical directories and special geographical literature has shown that there is two approximately equally mentioned estimations of the total area of the Peninsula of Kamchatka — 370 and 270 thousand km2. A simple, no time- and effort-consuming method of determination the area by squares or by weighing the cut outs convinces that the measured area of the peninsula is very close to 270 thousand km2 (±2–3 thousand km2). This means that an erroneous estimation of 370 thousand km2 has got inside such authoritative publications as the “Great Soviet Encyclopedia”, various encyclopedic geographical dictionaries, and, consequently, to the new “Great Russian Encyclopedia”.