List of ultras in Northeast Asia - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of all the Ultra prominent peak

Ultra prominent peak

An ultra prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is a mountain with a topographic prominence of or more. There are a total of roughly 1,524 such peaks in the world. Some are famous even to non-climbers, such as Mount Everest, Aconcagua, and Mount McKinley , while others are much more obscure...

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Topographic prominence

In topography, prominence, also known as autonomous height, relative height, shoulder drop , or prime factor , categorizes the height of the mountain's or hill's summit by the elevation between it and the lowest contour line encircling it and no higher summit...

greater than 1,500 metres) in Northeast Asia. There are 53 in total.

Baikal
Baikal
Baykal commonly refers to Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, Russia.Baykal or Baikal may also refer to:-Russia:Baykal, Irkutsk Oblast, an urban-type settlementBaykal, Aurgazinsky District, Republic of Bashkortostan, a village...

to Okhotsk
Okhotsk
Okhotsk is an urban locality and a seaport at the mouth of the Okhota River on the Sea of Okhotsk, in Okhotsky District, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. Population: 4,470 ;...

No	Peak	Country	Elevation (m)	Prominence (m)	Col (m)
1	Pik BAM Pik Bam Pik BAM is a mountain in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. It reaches 3,072 metres above sea level. It was named after the Baikal Amur Mainline railway, which passes south of it. It is the highest summit of the Kodar Range. The nearest town is Novaya Chara....		3,072	2,230	842
2	HP Yuzhno Muiskyy Khrebet		3,067	2,107	960
3	Gora Tardoki-Yani		2,090	1,989	101
4	HP Yam-Alin Range		2,370	1,915	455
5	HP Verkhne-Angarskiy Khrebet		2,641	1,819	822
6	HP North Kodar Group		2,966	1,810	1156
7	HP Barguzinskiy Khrebet		2,841	1,723	1118
8	HP Tokinskiy Stanovik		2,380	1,683	697
9	Gora Lopatina	(Sakhalin Sakhalin Sakhalin or Saghalien, is a large island in the North Pacific, lying between 45°50' and 54°24' N.It is part of Russia, and is Russia's largest island, and is administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast... )	1,609	1,609	0
10	Gora Cherskogo		2,588	1,596	992
11	Shaman		2,363	1,596	767
12	HP Khrebet Udokan		2,570	1,501	1069

Eastern Siberia

No	Peak	Elevation (m)	Prominence (m)	Col (m)
1	Pik Pobeda	3,003	2,443	560
2	Ledyakaya	2,453	2,337	116
3	Pik Mus-Khaya	2,959	1,929	1030
4	HP Momskiy Khrebet	2,480	1,760	720
5	Gora Chen	2,690	1,740	950
6	HP Khrebet Orulgan	2,409	1,690	719
7	HP Khrebet Saltaga-Tas	2,021	1,622	399
8	Hakandya	2,615	1,545	1070
9	HP Arga-Tas	2,400	1,510	890

Kamchatka

No	Peak	Elevation (m)	Prominence (m)	Col (m)
1	Klyuchevskaya Sopka Klyuchevskaya Sopka Klyuchevskaya Sopka is a stratovolcano which is the highest mountain on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia and the highest active volcano of Eurasia. Its steep, symmetrical cone towers about from the Bering Sea...	4,750	4,649	101
2	Shiveluch Shiveluch Shiveluch is the northernmost active volcano in Kamchatka Krai, Russia. It is sometimes called Sheveluch or Sopka Shiveluch. It is one of Kamchatka's largest and most active volcanoes.- History :...	3,307	3,168	139
3	Ichinsky Ichinsky Ichinsky is a large stratovolcano located in the central part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. At , it is the highest peak of the Sredinny Range, the central range of the peninsula. Ichinsky is also among the largest volcanoes in Kamchatka, with a volume of about .The volcano is capped by a ...	3,607	3,125	482
4	Koryaksky Koryaksky Koryaksky or Koryakskaya Sopka is a volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. It lies within sight of Kamchatka Krai's administrative center, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky...	3,456	2,999	457
5	Kronotsky Kronotsky Kronotsky is a major stratovolcano of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It has a particularly symmetrical conical shape, comparable to Mount Fuji in Japan and to Mayon Volcano in the Philippines. The summit crater is plugged by a volcanic neck, and the summit itself is ice capped. It exhibits the...	3,527	2,736	791
6	Zhupanovsky Zhupanovsky Zhupanovsky is a volcanic massif located in the southeastern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It consists of four overlapping stratovolcanoes....	2,923	2,210	713
7	Ostry Tolbachik Tolbachik Tolbachik is a volcanic complex on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. It consists of two volcanoes, Plosky Tolbachik and Ostry Tolbachik , which as the names suggest are respectively a flat-topped shield volcano and a peaked stratovolcano...	3,672	2,190	1482
8	Opala	2,460	2,070	390
9	Kambalny Kambalny Kambalny is a stratovolcano located in the southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It consists of two cones, the western one collapsed about 6,300 years ago. Three large sector collapses on the volcano had a total volume of 5-10 cubic km, which is the largest known Holocene collapse in...	2,161	1,970	191
10	Khuvkhoitun Khuvkhoitun Khuvkhoitun sometimes referred to as Gora Khuvkhoitun is a stratovolcano located on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. The mountain reaches 2,616 m in elevation above sea level....	2,616	1,920	696
11	Alney-Chashakondzha Alney-Chashakondzha Alney-Chashakondzha is a volcanic complex located in the northern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It consists of two stratovolcanoes: Alney and Chashakondzha...	2,598	1,825	773
12	Khodutka Khodutka Khodutka , also known as Khodutkinskiye Gory , is a stratovolcano located in the southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.It was formed from an older stratovolcano, known as Priemysh, between the late-Pleistocene and the early Holocene periods....	2,089	1,810	279
13	Gamchen Gamchen Gamchen is a complex volcano located in the southeastern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It is composed of four stratovolcanoes....	2,577	1,750	827
14	Mutnovsky Mutnovsky Mutnovsky is a complex volcano located in the southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It is one of the most active volcanoes of southern Kamchatka; the latest eruption was recorded in 2000. At the foot of the Mutnovsky lies a geyser field, popularly known as the Lesser Valley of Geysers.-...	2,322	1,750	572
15	Zheltovsky Zheltovsky Zheltovsky is a stratovolcano located in the southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia....	1,957	1,730	227
16	Udina Udina Udina is a volcanic massif located in the central part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It comprises two conical stratovolcanoes: Bolshaya Udina and Malaya Udina .- References :*...	2,920	1,630	1290
17	Bakening Bakening Bakening is a stratovolcano located in the southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia....	2,276	1,610	666
18	Vilyuchik Vilyuchik Vilyuchik, also known as Vilyuchinsky is a stratovolcano in the southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It is located about SSW of the closed city of Vilyuchinsk....	2,173	1,610	563
19	Zimina Zimina Zimina volcano or Zimin is a stratovolcano located in the central part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It comprises two peaks: Ovalnaya Zimina and Ostraya Zimina....	3,080	1,570	1510
20	Avachinsky	2,741	1,550	1191
21	Taunshits Taunshits Taunshits is a stratovolcano located in the eastern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia....	2,353	1,550	803
22	Kizimen Kizimen Kizimen is a stratovolcano located in the southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.The volcano was in a dormant state since an eruption in 1929, but on the second of September 2009 it was reported by Georgina Cooper for the Reuters news agency that the crater lake temperature had risen 10...	2,375	1,530	845

Kuril Islands
Kuril Islands
The Kuril Islands , in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, form a volcanic archipelago that stretches approximately northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. There are 56 islands and many more minor rocks. It consists of Greater...

No	Peak	Country	Elevation (m)	Prominence (m)	Col (m)
1	Vulkan Alaid Atlasov Island Atlasov Island, known in Russian as Ostrov Atlasova , or in Japanese as Araido , is the northernmost island and volcano and also the highest volcano of the Kuril islands, part of the Sakhalin Oblast in Russia. The Russian name is sometimes rendered in English as Atlasova Island...	(Atlasov Island Atlasov Island Atlasov Island, known in Russian as Ostrov Atlasova , or in Japanese as Araido , is the northernmost island and volcano and also the highest volcano of the Kuril islands, part of the Sakhalin Oblast in Russia. The Russian name is sometimes rendered in English as Atlasova Island... )	2,339	2,339	0
2	Tyatya Tyatya Tyatya in Japanese) is a volcano located in the northeastern part of Kunashir Island, Kuril Islands, Russia. It is the highest peak on the island with an elevation of... 爺々岳	(Kunashiri Island国後島)	1,819	1,819	0
3	Chikurachki Chikurachki Chikurachki is the highest volcano on Paramushir Island in the northern Kuril islands, is actually a relatively small cone constructed on a high Pleistocene volcanic edifice. Oxidized andesitic scoria deposits covering the upper part of the young cone give it a distinctive red color...	(Paramushir Paramushir Paramushir , is a volcanic island in the northern portion of Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is separated from Shumshu by the very narrow Second Kuril Strait in the northeast , from Antsiferov by the Luzhin Strait to the southwest, from Atlasov in the... )	1,816	1,816	0
4	Stokap/単冠山	(Iturup Iturup Iturup is the largest island of the South Kuril Islands. It is the northernmost island in the southern Kuril/Chishima islands, and though it is presently controlled by Russia, Japan also claims this island... Etorofu Etorofu Etorofu was an escort ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.... 択捉島)	1,634	1,634	0
5	Fuss Peak Fuss Peak Fuss Peak is an active stratovolcano located on the southern end of Paramushir Island, Kuril Islands, Russia. Only one unambiguous eruption, in 1854, is known. Fuss Peak is still active....	(Paramushir Paramushir Paramushir , is a volcanic island in the northern portion of Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is separated from Shumshu by the very narrow Second Kuril Strait in the northeast , from Antsiferov by the Luzhin Strait to the southwest, from Atlasov in the... )	1,772	1,630	142
6	Bogdan Khmelnitskiy	(Iturup Iturup Iturup is the largest island of the South Kuril Islands. It is the northernmost island in the southern Kuril/Chishima islands, and though it is presently controlled by Russia, Japan also claims this island... /Etorofu Etorofu Etorofu was an escort ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.... 択捉島)	1,585	1,550	35
7	Milne Volcano	(Simushir Simushir Simushir is an uninhabited volcanic island near the center of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language for “large island”.-Geology:... )	1,539	1,539	0

Korea
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

No	Peak	Country	Elevation (m)	Prominence (m)	Col (m)
1	Baekdu Mountain Baekdu Mountain Baekdu Mountain, also known in China as Changbai Mountain and Baitou Mountain , is a volcanic mountain on the border between North Korea and China, located at...	/	2,744	2,593	151
2	Hallasan Hallasan Hallasan is a shield volcano on Jeju Island of South Korea. Hallasan is the highest mountain of South Korea. The area around the mountain is a designated national park, the Hallasan National Park...	(Jeju-do Jeju-do Jeju-do is the only special autonomous province of South Korea, situated on and coterminous with the country's largest island. Jeju-do lies in the Korea Strait, southwest of Jeollanam-do Province, of which it was a part before it became a separate province in 1946... )	1,950	1,950	0
3	Jirisan Jirisan Jirisan is a mountain in the southern region of South Korea. It is often considered one of the three most important mountains in South Korea , with Hallasan and Seoraksan being the other two....		1,915	1,696	219

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