Mount Kanaga

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Mount Kanaga
View, looking west to Kanaga Volcano in 1994 eruption.
Elevation	4,288 feet (1,307 metres)
Location	Kanaga Island, Alaska, USA
Range	Aleutian Range
Coordinates	51°55′24″N, 177°10′05″W
Type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	1995

Mount Kanaga is located about 25 km (16 mi) west of the U.S. Navy installation and port on Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands. The volcano erupted intermittently through much of 1994, dusting the community of Adak at least once with fine ash.

Map showing volcanoes of Alaska. The mark is set at the location of Mount Kanaga.

[edit] Sources

• Siebert L, Simkin T (2002-). Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions. Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program Digital Information Series, GVP-3, (http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/).
• Volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands-Selected Photographs
• Alaska Volcano Observatory

Aerial photograph of Kanaga Island produced in 1952 by the United States Navy.

Kanaga Island with Mount Kanaga seen from space