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Map of Katmai National Park and surrounding area. Katmai National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and preserve in southwest Alaska, notable for the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and for its brown bears. The park and preserve encompass 4,093,077 acres (6,395.43 sq mi; 16,564.09 km 2), which is between the sizes of Connecticut ...
Alaska Volcano Observatory Archived 2010-04-20 at the Wayback Machine (to follow 2009 volcanic activity by geologists reports) Live updates from the AVO Twitter page. Webcams: Redoubt Volcano Webcam Archived 2009-04-01 at the Wayback Machine, USGS (intermittently available). View of north flank of Redoubt from AVO's Redoubt Hut, approximately 7 ...
The average household size was 3.40 and the average family size was 3.93. In the city, the age distribution of the population shows 39.8% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 30.4% from 25 to 44, 17.2% from 45 to 64, and 4.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 26 years.
Mendenhall Glacier (in Tlingit language “ Sít”) is a glacier about 13.6 miles (21.9 km) long located in Mendenhall Valley, about 12 miles (19 km) from downtown Juneau in the southeast area of the U.S. state of Alaska. [2] The glacier and surrounding landscape is protected as part of the 5,815 acres (2,353 ha) Mendenhall Glacier Recreation ...
Augustine Volcano (Sugpiaq: Utakineq; [3] Dena'ina: Chu Nula) is a stratovolcano in Alaska consisting of a central complex of summit lava domes and flows surrounded by an apron of pyroclastic, lahar, avalanche, and ash deposits. The volcano is frequently active, with major eruptions recorded in 1883, 1935, 1963–64, 1976, 1986, and 2006.
Mount Shishaldin. Shishaldin Volcano, or Mount Shishaldin (/ ʃɪˈʃældən /), is a moderately active volcano on Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands chain of Alaska in the United States. [1] It is the highest mountain peak of the Aleutian Islands and rises about 8,000 m (26,000 ft) from the bottom of the Aleutian Trench 140 mi (230 km ...
550 m (1,800 ft) Terminus. Sealevel (Prince William Sound) Status. Retreating. The Columbia Glacier, a glacier in Prince William Sound on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, is one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world, and has been retreating since the early 1980s. It was named after Columbia University, one of several glaciers ...
The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) is a joint program of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAFGI), and the State of Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (ADGGS). [3] AVO was formed in 1988, and uses federal, state, and university resources to monitor ...