Mount Okmok
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Mount Okmok | |
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Aerial view looking north of Okmok caldera, a 9.3-km- diameter (5.8 mi) circular crater that truncates the top of a large shield volcano on the northeastern part of Umnak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands. |
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Elevation: | 1073 m (3,520 feet) |
Coordinates: | |
Location: | Alaska,Aleutian Range |
Type: | Shield volcano |
Last eruption: | 1997 |
First ascent: |
[edit] Sources
- Siebert, L. and T. Simkin (2002-). Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions. Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program Digital Information Series, GVP-3. URL: http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/
- Volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands-Selected Photographs
- Alaska Volcano Observatory