Google earth is our friend
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Originally Posted by Keks
Not sure which wiki you looked at. Judging from Google maps though there are in fact roads on the Kamtschatka peninsula.
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Chris
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Well it wasn't wikileaks, just the bog standard wikipedia for "Petropavlovsk".
Anyway, I have been looking at google earth, and it does show a road running more or less northward out of Petro, but only for a shortish distance as far as some other town. It's labelled as the P474.
The P474 does the usual thing of roads the world over = it takes the line of least resistance through the landscape, following a river in the main.
North of that town where the P474 appears to terminate, the geography appears to be quite rugged and I didn't notice any obvious roads, or tracks for that matter - much less signs of habitation.
But, I haven't looked in detail at the whole area which gives every appearance of being remote and for anyone travelling along the length of the peninsula it would involve cross-graining a lot of the geography.
That's my 10 minutes worth of research  I didn't look at google maps in any detail - I prefer the photographs.
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Panning out in G E, I imagine the Russians could be quite sensitive about this piece of their real estate, given it's location viz a viz both continental USA and Japan (China and Japan are at each other's throats at present about contested islands some way to the south).
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Last edited by Walkabout; 24 Aug 2012 at 18:17.
Reason: ps thought
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