Elevation has several related meanings: Geography The elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... Latitude, denoted φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... Map of Earth showing curved lines of longitude Longitude, sometimes denoted λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski Official languages English Area 1,717,854 km² (1st) - Land 1,481,347 km² - Water 236,507 km² (13. ... The Aleutian Range is the mountain range of the Alaska Peninsula in southeast Alaska. ... The Alaska Peninsula is a peninsula on the mainland of Alaska at the beginning of the Aleutian Islands. ... Mountains can be characterized in several ways. ... View of Mount Rainier, a stratovolcano. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In climbing, a first ascent (FA) is the first climb to reach the top of a mountain, or the first to follow a particular climbing route. ...
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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 (http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/dds/dds-40/)]
In modern times the volcano has had numerous small eruptions (over ten of them since 1930); these are located at a cinder cone in the middle of the caldera.
Mount Sanford is a poorly-known, dissected shield volcano and the highest volcano in the Wrangell volcanic field.
Ash eruption from the intracaldera cinder cone at MountVeniaminof volcano.
A special information release was issued on June 29 and MountVeniaminof activity was mentioned in AVO weekly updates until November 25, 1994 when it appeared the eruption had waned significantly or ceased altogether.
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