“…Solomina et al, 1995Solomina et al, , 2007Yamaguchi et al, 2008), and few investigations have focused upon the Holocene as a whole Yamagata et al, 2000Yamagata et al, , 2002, despite Kamchatka offering one of the bestresolved Holocene tephra sequences anywhere in the world Ponomareva et al, 2007Ponomareva et al, , 2013. With this in mind, the purpose of this paper is to summarise current understanding of Holocene glacier fluctuations upon the Kamchatka Peninsula (Solomina et al, 1995(Solomina et al, , 2007Savoskul and Zech, 1997;Yamagata et al, 2002;Solomina et al, 2007;Yamaguchi et al, 2008), and to place this information in a wider palaeoglacial and palaeoclimatic context. In order to achieve this aim, an overview of ice extent upon the peninsula during earlier (pre-Holocene) phases of glaciation is also outlined.…”