Mount Katmai
Mount Katmai is a large dormant stratovolcano (composite volcano) on the Alaska Peninsula in southern Alaska, located within Katmai National Park and Preserve. It is about in diameter with a central lake-filled caldera about in size, formed during the Novarupta eruption of 1912. The caldera rim reaches a maximum elevation of . In 1975 the surface of the crater lake was at an elevation of about , and the estimated elevation of the caldera floor is about .
Details
- Part
- Katmai National Park and Preserve
- Topo
- USGS Mount Katmai B-3
- Type
- Stratovolcano
- Range
- Aleutian Range
- State
- Alaska
- Country
- United States
- Map Size
- 270
- Formed By
- Subduction zone volcanism
- Part Type
- Protected area
- Elevation Ft
- 6715
- Volcanic Arc
- Aleutian Arc
- Easiest Route
- Basic snow/ice climb
- Last Eruption
- June 6-9, 1912
- Prominence Ft
- 2391