Kamchatkan

British  

/ kamˈtʃatkən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Kamchatka, a peninsula in E Russia, or its inhabitants

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noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Kamchatka

Example Sentences

When an international team of scientists led by Cosimo Posth, a paleogeneticist at the University of Tübingen, extracted and analyzed DNA from the bones, the researchers found these people were closely related to modern-day Kamchatkan populations.

From Science Magazine

His catches included friend-of-a-friend Tom Brokaw, the media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner, Sandra Day O’Connor and, finally, his most prized trophy of all — Alexander Abramov, an ultra-wealthy Russian oligarch and fishing aficionado who has the power to make or break Rahr’s Kamchatkan dreams.

From New York Times

The disappearance of the sisters assumes different dimensions as it shapes and is refracted through the lives of the Kamchatkan women.

From The New Yorker

This is in a measure due to the widely different localities and conditions under which he is found, and to the very close resemblance he bears to his first cousins, Salmo clarkii, of the streams flowing into the Pacific from northern California to southern Alaska; and to Salmo mykiss of the Kamchatkan rivers.

From Project Gutenberg

Nome was an important stop, because the Lindberghs planned to use this as their jumping off place for the hop across the Pacific Ocean to Karagin Island, off the Kamchatkan Peninsula.

From Project Gutenberg