Kurile Islands, July 2019: impressions
Miscellaneous impressions from our pilot tour to the northern Kurile Islands in July 2019: views from the NW shore of Paramushir towards Alaid, Kuntomintar volcano on Shiashkotan and very clear sunset views from the Okhotsk Sea towards Chikurachiki, Fuss and Alaid volcanoes.
Landing on the NW shore of Paramushir Island, Alaid volcano in the background. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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River bed draining from Ebeko volcano's complex towards the beach (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Ash plume from an eruption of Ebeko volcano (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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The mouth of the creek forms a vast pebble beach. The ash plume from the eruption in the previous pi... [info]
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Tree trunk on the beach (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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The small river carries lots of volcanic gas in solution and particles, giving the sea color a green... [info]
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Breaking waves, Alaid and our yacht in the background. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Receding wave (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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If it wasn't in the Kuril Islands, one could think it's a tropical beach on a sunny day. (Photo: Tom... [info]
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Surface fog arrives from the Okhotsk Sea, already surrounding the shores of Atlasov Island (Alaid vo... [info]
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View towards the southern tip of Kamchatka in the distance (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Platy lavas are exposed at the beach. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Abstract patterns almost as if the rocks were shists (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Small coves in between the platy lavas (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Returning from our outing to the river and this extraordinary beach (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Shiashkotan Island with the caldera of Kuntomintar volcano; fumaroles are visible inside the collaps... [info]
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Zoom onto the fumaroles inside Kuntomintar's collapse crater (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Part of the caldera wall (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Colorful hydrothermally altered rocks (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Wide-angle view of Kuntomintar volcano (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Massive horizontal ignimbrite (ash-flow) deposits form much of the SW part of Shiashkotan Island. (P... [info]
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Such ignimbrite layers often look similar to lava flows from a distance, but when visiting the coast... [info]
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Erosion gullies cut through the ignimbrite deposit at the coast. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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The SW coast of Shiashkotan; on the plateau, remnants of a Japanese military base can be found. (Pho... [info]
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Atlasof Island with Alaid volcano at sunset (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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In summer 2019, lots of laminaria (brown sea algae) were encountered in the shallow bays of many isl... [info]
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Floating laminaria. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Chikurachki volcano in the evening (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Bright sunset over the Okhotsk Sea (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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But no Green Flash at the end... (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Chikurachki and Fuss volcanoes after sunset (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Alaid volcano's majestic silhouette (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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The characteristic purple haze often seen during the onset of the blue hour in the upper western sky... [info]
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Chikurachki and Fuss volcanoes in the blue hour (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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View towards Alaid at the end of the blue hour (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
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Distant view of an ash plume from Ebeko volcano rising to approx. 2 km altitude. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffe... [info]
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