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Crater Lake National Parkis a national park of the United Stateslocated in southern Oregon. Established in 1902, Crater Lake is the fifth-oldest national park in the United States and the only national park in Oregon.[3] The park encompasses the calderaof Crater Lake, a remnant of Mount Mazama, a destroyed volcano, and the surrounding hills and ...
The top of the mountain has 14 lakes and ponds. Sunfish Pond, Catfish Pond, Mountain Ridge Lake, Blue Mountain Lake, Long Pine Pond, Lake Success, Crater Lake, Hemlock Lake, Kittatinny Lake, Steeny Kill Lake and Lake Marcia are some of them. Lake Marcia is the lake with the highest elevation on the mountain, 1,574 feet (480 m) above sea level.
Crater Lake (Klamath: Giiwas) [ 2 ] is a volcanic crater lake in south-central Oregon in the Western United States. It is the main feature of Crater Lake National Park and is famous for its deep blue color and water clarity. The lake partly fills a 2,148-foot-deep (655 m) caldera [ 3 ] that was formed around 7,700 (± 150) years ago [ 4 ] by ...
Crater Lake actually started as a mountain, Mount Mazama. A volcanic eruption roughly 7,700 years ago caused the mountain to collapse inward over time, forming a volcanic crater, the park says.
New Jersey: Lake Hopatcong. ... Crater Lake. Crater Lake National Park is home to the deepest lake in the United States. ... Smith Mountain Lake. Known as the "Jewel of the Blue Ridge Mountains ...
Mount Mazama (Tum-sum-ne in the Native American language Klamath [ 5 ]) is a complex volcano in the western U.S. state of Oregon, in a segment of the Cascade Volcanic Arc and Cascade Range. The volcano is in Klamath County, in the southern Cascades, 60 miles (97 km) north of the Oregon– California border. Its collapse, due to the eruption of ...
Landsat image of Lake Toba, Indonesia, the largest volcanic crater lake in the world. A well-known crater lake, which bears the same name as the geological feature, is Crater Lake in Oregon. It is located in the caldera of Mount Mazama. It is the deepest lake in the United States with a depth of 594 m (1,949 ft).
The Shawangunk Ridge is the northern end of a long ridge within the Appalachian Mountains that begins in Virginia, where it is called North Mountain, continues through Pennsylvania as Blue Mountain, becomes known as the Kittatinny Mountains after it crosses the Delaware Water Gap into New Jersey and becomes the Shawangunks at the New York state line.