Kamchatsk

Kamchatsk lies near the mouth of the Kamchatka River, where the peninsula's greatest river reaches the Pacific south of Kamchatsky Point. The river flows north through the central valley before turning east across the mountains. Itelmen communities inhabited its basin before Russian forts appeared along its course. In the eighteenth century the lower Kamchatka fort was rebuilt farther downstream after an Itelmen uprising; a settlement also grew near the river mouth.